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Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, according to the world's pre-eminent AI expert, it could also be the last. In this ground-breaking book on the biggest question facing humanity, Stuart Russell explains why he has come to consider his own...
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Allen Lane/Penguin Books,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, according to the world's pre-eminent AI expert, it could also be the last. In this ground-breaking book on the biggest question facing humanity, Stuart Russell explains why he has come to consider his own discipline an existential threat to his own species, and lays out how we can change course before it's too late. There is no one better placed to assess the promise and perils of the dominant technology of the future than Russell, who has spent decades at the forefront of AI research. Through brilliant analogies and crisp, lucid prose, he explains how AI actually works, how it has an enormous capacity to improve our lives - but why we must ensure that we never lose control of machines more powerful than we are. Here Russell shows how we can avert the worst threats by reshaping the foundations of AI to guarantee that machines pursue our objectives, not theirs. Profound, urgent and visionary, Human Compatible is the one book everyone needs to read to understand a future that is coming sooner than we think. |
| Item Description: | Subtitle on cover: AI and the problem of control. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780241335208 0241335205 |
| Index Number: | Q334 |
| CLC: | TP18 |
| Call Number: | TP18/R967-1 |
| Contents: | If we succeed -- Intelligence in humans and machines -- How might AI progress in the future? -- Misuses of AI -- Overly intelligent AI -- The not-so-great AI debate -- AI : a different approach -- Provably beneficial AI -- Complications : us -- Problem solved? -- Searching for solutions -- Knowledge and logic -- Uncertainty and probability -- Learning from experience. |