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The Big Nine : how the tech titans and their thinking machines could warp humanity / Amy Webb.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: eng Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, 2020Description: 324 pages ; 24 cm 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781541773738 (softcover)
  • 154177373X (softcover)
Other title:
  • Big 9
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 006.301
LOC classification:
  • Q 334.7 W365b 2020
Contents:
Part I. Ghosts in the machine. Introduction : before it's too late ; Mind and machine : a very brief history of AI The insular world of AI's tribes A thousand paper cuts : AI's unintended consequences Part II. Our futures. From here to artificial superintelligence : the warning signs ; Thriving in the third age of computing : the optimistic scenario ; Learning to live with millions of paper cuts : the pragmatic scenario ; The Réngōng Zhìnéng Dynasty : the catastrophic scenario Part III. Solving the problems. Pebbles and boulders : how to fix AI's future
Summary: In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI - the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself - is broken. Within our lifetimes, AI will, by design, begin to behave unpredictably, thinking and acting in ways which defy human logic. The big nine corporations may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) Q 334.7 W365b 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000190303

"Originally published in hardcover and ebook by PublicAffairs in March 2019"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Ghosts in the machine. Introduction : before it's too late ; Mind and machine : a very brief history of AI
The insular world of AI's tribes
A thousand paper cuts : AI's unintended consequences
Part II. Our futures. From here to artificial superintelligence : the warning signs ; Thriving in the third age of computing : the optimistic scenario ; Learning to live with millions of paper cuts : the pragmatic scenario ; The Réngōng Zhìnéng Dynasty : the catastrophic scenario
Part III. Solving the problems. Pebbles and boulders : how to fix AI's future

In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI - the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself - is broken. Within our lifetimes, AI will, by design, begin to behave unpredictably, thinking and acting in ways which defy human logic. The big nine corporations may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity

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