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Barrat James

    This author delves into the complex and fascinating realm of artificial intelligence and its potential impact on humanity. Through their documentary filmmaking and writing, they explore the profound ethical and existential questions surrounding the development of intelligent machines. Their work serves as a compelling call to contemplate our future and approach the technologies we create with careful consideration.

    Our Final Invention
    • Our Final Invention

      Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.3(13)Add rating

      Elon Musk named Our Final Invention one of 5 books everyone should read about the future A Huffington Post Definitive Tech Book of 2013 In as little as a decade, artificial intelligence could match and then surpass human intelligence. Corporations and government agencies around the world are pouring billions into achieving AI's Holy Grail—human-level intelligence. Once AI has attained it, scientists argue, it will have survival drives much like our own. We may be forced to compete with a rival more cunning, more powerful, and more alien than we can imagine. Through profiles of tech visionaries, industry watchdogs, and groundbreaking AI systems, James Barrat's Our Final Invention explores the perils of the heedless pursuit of advanced AI. Until now, human intelligence has had no rival. Can we coexist with beings whose intelligence dwarfs our own? And will they allow us to?

      Our Final Invention