Computers
Macmillan
October 1, 2013
336
A documentary filmmaker, bringing together Artificial Intelligence experts from around the world, explores the terrifying possibility of catastrophic outcomes once we share the planet with intelligent machines who are smarter and more powerful than we could ever have imagined. 25,000 first printing.
James Barret’s, Our Final Invention, is a sobering account of how our intelligence may ultimately get the best of us. The realization of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is more probable than we think with potential ramifications that are mind-boggling. Once we develop machines that are self-aware and continuously self-improving (singularity), superintelligence will evolve exponentially. How we factor into this state of affairs is not assured. We have achieved supremacy over other species because of our intelligence. The assumption that super-intelligent systems will deal with us benevolently falls apart when one considers our track record at the top of the pecking order.