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Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom6/26/2023 ![]() Please consult the Terminator franchise for more on how that situation plays out. Indeed, they might not be compatible with the continued existence of humans. They'll become goal-driven actors in their own right, and their goals may not be compatible with those of humans. In an extreme case, they could wholly replace human workers, enabling humankind to quit working and live comfortably off the robots' labor.īut the problem is that, Bostrom argues, superintelligent machines will be so much more intelligent than humans that they most likely won't remain tools. ![]() ![]() They could cure diseases and resolve intractable scientific quandaries. ![]() At some point, many experts believe that artificial intelligence will advance to a point where it not only exceeds human intelligence, but is capable of expanding its own intelligence, setting off an exponential "intelligence explosion." In theory, these hyper-intelligent machines could be used to serve human ends. His latest book, Superintelligence, is all about what happens if and when general artificial intelligence (AI) emerges - and why that could mean a world dominated by machines. The Oxford professor has written about the possibility that we're all living in a simulation, the likelihood that all intelligent life on Earth will become extinct in the next century, and whether or not morality can exist in an infinitely large universe. ![]() Nick Bostrom doesn't worry about the same things most philosophers worry about. ![]()
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