Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era - James Barrat • BookLikes (ISBN:0312622376)

Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

by: James Barrat (author)

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James Barrat,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by St. Martin's Press on 10-01-2013

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Format: hardcover

ISBN: 9780312622374 (0312622376)

ASIN: 312622376

Pages no: 336

Edition language: English

Category:

Non Fiction, Computer Science, Science, Technology, Computers, Culture, Sociology, Society

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Tolle Lege!. rated it

10 years ago

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The author could be right, advanced AI could be the final step for humans and can lead to our own extinction, but the author deals mostly in speculation and never gives us a firm foundation for why that will happen. He does mention Alan Turing and the cracking of the enigma code in WW II. The story ...

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Cassandra Reads rated it

11 years ago

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I received a copy of this book from the publisher, via NetGalley, for review.This book offers a terrifying view of humanity's future. AI isn't something I'd really thought about and I was surprised by how many different things have a version of AI: many are simplistic, perhaps, but one building bloc...

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