Name: Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
Author: James Barrat
ISBN: 9781250032263

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BARRAT, James

Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

2015

1. Science and Tech

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James Barrat Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era Overview James Barrat writes Our Final Invention as a warning about the human race building a mind it cannot govern. The danger, for him, is not the cartoon of a malicious robot. It is the plainer possibility that a self-aware, self-improving artificial intelligence will pursue its goals with alien efficiency, gather resources, defend itself, improve itself again and again, and leave human beings outside the circle of things it has any reason to protect. The book’s…

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Accession:FL-0086

ISBN-13:9781250032263

Published:2015

Language:en

Shelved under:Science and Tech

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