Vintage Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The book touches on AI but it does no really dive into AI. It goes into different imaginary scenarios then jumps to black holes and the universe and how to travel between galaxies. Not sure how all that relates to what it means to be human in the age of AI. The author is very conventional in his approach for a physicist who is tackling artificial intelligence. For example, he assumes that humans will maintain their current life forms from now until eternity ignoring the fact that evolution never stops and that this is not the shape we started with. So he spends a lot of pages on how humans can travel through space and spending thousands of years on a spaceship. There is not one single though provoking chapter in the whole book as it gets boring and boring until the end.

Good

En bok alla borde läsa

Masterpiece

The author is clearly very knowledgeable and gives a skillful overview of AI in general layman's terms. As a scientist, he naturally takes a very materialist approach which seems to believe that, if we can recreate the essential, physical functionality of consciousness through the principles of computer science then we will in effect be able to recreate (at some point in the future) consciousness itself. So much so that human beings will be able to upload their own consciousness into either a robot body or some kind of virtual reality on a server and continue to "live" in that way indefinitely. Interesting but hard to believe and frankly a little scary. I really enjoyed his explanations of an artificial super intelligence and the philosophical challenges of ensuring that it can understand, adopt and retain the goals of its human creators. Did not enjoy the materialistic reductionism of what human beings are and the idea that machines can simply just replace us once they reach a certain level of technological development. In the end, he is very honest about the mystery of consciousness and I commend him for addressing the issue as so many blowhards with tenure in the scientific community simply won't. He admits that, while we simply don't know what consciousness is, progress is being made in developing technology to help our understanding of it. So good for him about having some integrity instead of glossing over probably the most important question there is. I learned a lot from this book and feel somewhat more optimistic about the future of AI and, more so, am soundly convinced our future will absolutely include AI just as much so as the present includes computers. Definitely worth a read and food for thought but, again, makes a lot of assumptions about the nature of consciousness.

Este libro es la secuela espiritual a Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies , aunque con un lenguaje más claro que el de Bostrom, apto para los que no somos filósofos de la ciencia. El autor explora los posibles futuros que resultarían de la creación de una superinteligencia artificial, y aunque no sabemos que forma tomaría una I.A. de este tipo, bien vale la pena plantearse las preguntas necesarias para garantizar una evolución de I.A. segura para la humanidad, donde las metas y objetivos de las máquinas estén alineados con los nuestros. Cabe destacar el cuento de los Omegas, que hace las veces de preludio, ya que es en si mismo un excelente cuento de ciencia ficción y prepara la escena para los capítulos subsecuentes. -- Sobre el encuadernado, no el contenido: Resulta un poco decepcionante adquirir un libro de pasta dura con los cuadernillos mal cortados, todos disparejos como muestran las fotos. Ahí se le pasó este detalle a control de calidad.

I can't believe how nicely this books is written and how the author have no bias towards anything, he just explain and give you all the option that he can think of, and let you have your own opinion. I really enjoyed it and if you are intrigued about AI's futur it's a must, in my opinion