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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (original 2017; edition 2017)

by Max Tegmark (Author)

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Business. Science. Technology. Nonfiction. HTML:New York Times Best Seller
How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technologyâ??and thereâ??s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor whoâ??s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.

 
How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving people lacking income or purpose? What career advice should we give todayâ??s kids? How can we make future AI systems more robust, so that they do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, replacing humans on the job market and perhaps altogether? Will AI help life flourish like never before or give us more power than we can handle?
 
What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. It doesnâ??t shy away from the full range of viewpoints or from the most controversial issuesâ??from superintelligence to meaning, consciousness and the ultimate physical limits on l
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This is a strange book, which mixes considerations that are vague conjectures about the future of intelligence with current research. The actual prose could do with some cleaning up, ironing out. But ultimately the content is unique, important and enlightening for both a technical reader as a lay person.

Undoubtedly AI will have a huge influenve on our future, this Physicists perspective is an important one to take into consideration. ( )
  yates9 | Feb 28, 2024 |
Best book I have read on this topic to date. He starts with a great story then goes over the positive and negative and the philosophy that is involved. ( )
  GShuk | Dec 30, 2023 |
One of the best books I read in my life. Chapters about intelligence, life form and conscience are mindblowing ( )
  kmaxat | Aug 26, 2023 |
3,8 stars

Very interesting subject matter. I think it would have been better to read the physical text, rather than listen to the audio, as I'm sure some of the things covered flew past me while I found my thoughts wandering. While the topic was fascinating, I wasn't a huge fan of the writing. It was easy to understand, but there was a lot of unnecessary name dropping and I'd have preferred a less personal take on the topic. Definitely worth reading though, gave me a lot of food for thought. ( )
  tuusannuuska | Dec 1, 2022 |
Thought provoking and fear inducing. A condensed version would be better, but still read this if you are vaguely interested in AI. ( )
  tarsel | Sep 4, 2022 |
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Business. Science. Technology. Nonfiction. HTML:New York Times Best Seller
How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technologyâ??and thereâ??s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor whoâ??s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.

 
How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving people lacking income or purpose? What career advice should we give todayâ??s kids? How can we make future AI systems more robust, so that they do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, replacing humans on the job market and perhaps altogether? Will AI help life flourish like never before or give us more power than we can handle?
 
What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. It doesnâ??t shy away from the full range of viewpoints or from the most controversial issuesâ??from superintelligence to meaning, consciousness and the ultimate physical limits on l

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