Hardcover, 463 pages
Swedish language
Published Oct. 4, 2018 by Volante.
Det här är en fascinerande guide till alla utmaningar och val i vår strävan efter en fantastisk framtid för liv, intelligens och medvetande på jorden och långt ut i rymden. Elon Musk, grundare av SpaceX och Tesla Motors Alla bör fråga sig vad vi nu kan göra för att dra fördel av framtidens AI, och undvika riskerna. Detta är vår tids viktigaste samtal och Tegmarks tankeväckande bok hjälper dig i det samtalet. Professor Stephen Hawking Välkommen till det viktigaste samtalet just nu. Artificiell intelligens är inte längre science fiction. Den är ett faktum och den förändrar våra liv och vårt samhälle. Max Tegmark har skrivit ett blivande standardverk om mänsklighetens framtida existens. Är det troligt att vi kommer att skapa övermänsklig intelligens? Hur bör vårt rättsväsende hantera autonoma system? Hur slår automatiseringen? Detta är brännande frågor som vi alla behöver adressera: Om vi skapar en övermänsklig intelligens, skulle det då …
Det här är en fascinerande guide till alla utmaningar och val i vår strävan efter en fantastisk framtid för liv, intelligens och medvetande på jorden och långt ut i rymden. Elon Musk, grundare av SpaceX och Tesla Motors Alla bör fråga sig vad vi nu kan göra för att dra fördel av framtidens AI, och undvika riskerna. Detta är vår tids viktigaste samtal och Tegmarks tankeväckande bok hjälper dig i det samtalet. Professor Stephen Hawking Välkommen till det viktigaste samtalet just nu. Artificiell intelligens är inte längre science fiction. Den är ett faktum och den förändrar våra liv och vårt samhälle. Max Tegmark har skrivit ett blivande standardverk om mänsklighetens framtida existens. Är det troligt att vi kommer att skapa övermänsklig intelligens? Hur bör vårt rättsväsende hantera autonoma system? Hur slår automatiseringen? Detta är brännande frågor som vi alla behöver adressera: Om vi skapar en övermänsklig intelligens, skulle det då vara möjligt att kontrollera den? Kan vi över huvud taget försäkra oss om att användningen av AI gynnar oss? Max Tegmark betraktar dessa frågor ur sitt unika perspektiv och väljer bort både teknikskepticism och digital utopi vi behöver en rationell medelväg för att kunna navigera vår spektakulära framtid. Den makalösa kraft som den artificiella intelligensen har släppt loss medför att de kommande tio åren kan bli mänsklighetens bästa eller värsta. Tegmark har gjort den mest insiktsfulla och allra roligaste utforskningen av AI:s konsekvenser som jag någonsin har läst. Du har en högtidsstund framför dig. Professor Erik Brynjolfsson, chef för MIT Initiative on the digital economy och medförfattare till Den andra maskinåldern Tegmarks nya bok är en genomtänkt guide till vår tids viktigaste samtal om hur vi ska skapa en välvillig framtida civilisation, när vi nu smälter samman vårt biologiska tänkande med en ännu större intelligens som vi själva har skapat. Ray Kurzweil, uppfinnare och framtidsforskare, författare till The singularity is near Tegmark strävar efter att bidra till ett brett samtal om vilken sorts framtid vi som art vill skapa. Även om ämnena han tar upp AI, kosmologi, värdegrunder och till och med egenskaperna hos medvetna upplevelser kan vara besvärliga presenterar han dem på ett sätt som inte avskräcker utan bjuder in läsaren. Nick Bostrom, grundare av Future of humanity institute vid universitetet i Oxford, författare till Superintelligens Det här är en stimulerande bok som kommer att förändra vårt sätt att tänka när det gäller AI, intelligens och mänsklighetens framtid. Bart Selman, professor i datavetenskap, Cornell University Som framstående fysiker och ledare för Future of Life Institute har Max Tegmark fått en unik position att ge läsaren inside information om vår tids viktigaste problem, på ett sätt som är lättillgängligt utan att vara fördummande. Jaan Tallinn, Skypes medgrundare
I've read several books on the future of artificial intelligence, and this one is definitely the best. It's in an depth look at development and impact of AI, but also very approachable for the lay person.
An interesting topic turned into a collection of "facts intermixed with opinions presented as facts". While many of the discussions and concerns feel relevant, I cannot help but leaving this book with a feeling of having been duped by a salesman. So many things are presented according to the template "only these x things can happen" where clearly, a lot of other scenarios are both possible and plausible. Maybe it's just that it's to dystopic - according to this book there is clearly no way we will outlive AGI even for a few generations.
Still, with all this said, I found a lot of the contents of the book both interesting and thought-provoking.
You can be forgiven for thinking that this is a book about artificial intelligence. In fact, it's a book about the future of life on Earth over the next billion or so years. It's just that, the way things are going, it's a good bet that a big chunk of that is going to involve artificial intelligence.
This is also an optimistic future-speculation book, and thus is likely to be far rosier than the future will turn out to be.
The author also has a tendency to name-drop. The last chapter, in particular, can be skipped almost entirely, unless you enjoy reading dashing tales of hobnobbing with movers and/or shakers.
But all of that aside, there's a good amount of substance: What is AI good at now, and what will humans continue to be better at in the next few decades? What does superintelligent AI look and act like? How …
You can be forgiven for thinking that this is a book about artificial intelligence. In fact, it's a book about the future of life on Earth over the next billion or so years. It's just that, the way things are going, it's a good bet that a big chunk of that is going to involve artificial intelligence.
This is also an optimistic future-speculation book, and thus is likely to be far rosier than the future will turn out to be.
The author also has a tendency to name-drop. The last chapter, in particular, can be skipped almost entirely, unless you enjoy reading dashing tales of hobnobbing with movers and/or shakers.
But all of that aside, there's a good amount of substance: What is AI good at now, and what will humans continue to be better at in the next few decades? What does superintelligent AI look and act like? How can we keep it in check? How can we reevaluate the goals we give the AI, if our original goals turn out to be misguided or obsolete?
As much as I would wish to present a review that would justly honor this book, I guess I’m doomed to fail. For this is the kind of work that is so overwhelmingly complex, and great in scope, that trying to reduce it to any meaningful narratives is a daunting task. In a way, I want to chicken my way out of it, by simply saying, or better still, by simply pointing to the book, as in meaning: “go and read it yourselves”.
Do I recommend it? Of course I do. This is the right book on a very controversial but unavoidable topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI, for short). For we all sense it is happening, or at least it will happen, and with it will come many life changing (or should I say game changing?) consequences that cannot, and should not, be ignored.
Before reading this, though I …
As much as I would wish to present a review that would justly honor this book, I guess I’m doomed to fail. For this is the kind of work that is so overwhelmingly complex, and great in scope, that trying to reduce it to any meaningful narratives is a daunting task. In a way, I want to chicken my way out of it, by simply saying, or better still, by simply pointing to the book, as in meaning: “go and read it yourselves”.
Do I recommend it? Of course I do. This is the right book on a very controversial but unavoidable topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI, for short). For we all sense it is happening, or at least it will happen, and with it will come many life changing (or should I say game changing?) consequences that cannot, and should not, be ignored.
Before reading this, though I was a bit aware of some of the problems and concerns around the development of a powerful General Artificial Intelligence (AGI), truth is that I hadn’t truly grasped how problematic these technologies were — or how dangerous an endeavor this was. And this is where the book will stun those who, like me, only have a passing view on this subject.
Author Max Tegmark, the Swedish-American cosmologist, has a depth of knowledge both in physics and, well, obviously, cosmology that makes his thinking reach far beyond any other author on this subject (not even science-fiction writers with their inkling for imagining dystopian futures). Sometimes his thinking so far ahead, and I do mean really far, so deep into the future, that you will be awestruck for how deep are his concerns about the future of life and of our continuation as a species when faced with the many unavoidable obstacles we will inevitably have to face.
I have no expertise in these fields or on this topic to go about and break down whatever is discussed here here in any meaningful way. What I can do is to share my amazement and sense of wonder that I felt by reading this book. Thanks to it I’m now more aware of how complicated these issues are, what are the risks involved in developing these technologies, and even of how they can, and probably will, change the course of life and our future as a truly planetary species.
Having followed the many reasonings and evidences as Tegmark lays them out, even if I’m not as optimistic as he seems to be at the end of the book (you would have to read it to understand what I mean — for he has very compelling reasons to feel the way he does), I’m at least more comfortable with the directions things are taking. For AGI, if it happens, will probably be that Life 3.0 kind of paradigm shift, the aptly named singularity point, from beyond which what we can think or hope to understand is without doubt meaningless.
So, to wrap it up: if you have the smallest inkling in knowing more about AI, AGI, the problems surrounding this topic (and there are many!), and about the future of life on this planet and of our species, I wholeheartedly recommend you read this book. How many pages? 300 something? Don’t worry — for you won’t even notice. This is how interesting and exciting you will find this book.
Boken är bra men väldigt spretig. Ena stunden pratas det fysik och viskositet för att sedan gå in på medvetande och hur hela universum skulle kunna utföra beräkningar (om än långsamt).
Hade hellre läst innehållet i tre mer fokuserade böcker.
Amazing. This gives so many new questions, but I like the broadness of the book. I also liked how Max carefully avoided religious questions.
