Life 3.0: Being Human In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence

Life 3.0: Being Human In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence

In this authoritative and eye-opening book, Max Tegmark describes and illuminates the recent, path-breaking advances in Artificial Intelligence and how it is poised to overtake human intelligence.?ow will AI 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 technology-and there?s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who?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 today?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 doyou want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. It doesn?t shy away from the full range of viewpoints or from the most controversial issues-from superintelligence to meaning, consciousness and the ultimate physical limits on life in the cosmos.Review?Anyone who wants to discuss how artificial intelligence is shaping the world should read this book. Tegmark, a physicist by training, takes a scientific approach. He doesn?t spend a lot of time saying we should do this or that, and as a result,?ife 3.0?ffers a terrific baseline of knowledge on the subject.??-Bill Gates, ?10 Favorite Books about Technology??Original, accessible, and provocative. . . . Tegmark successfully gives clarity to the many faces of AI, creating a highly readable book that complements?he Second Machine Age?s economic perspective on the near-term implications of recent accomplishments in AI and the more detailed analysis of how we might get from where we are today to AGI and even the superhuman AI in?uperintelligence. . . .?t one point, Tegmark quotes Emerson: ?Life is a journey, not a destination.? The same may be said of the book itself. Enjoy the ride, and you will come out the other end with a greater appreciation of where people might take technology and themselves in the years ahead.??Science?Lucid and engaging, it has much to offer the general reader. Mr. Tegmark?s explanation of how electronic circuitry-or a human brain-could produce something as evanescent and immaterial as thought is both elegant and enlightening. But the idea that machine-based superintelligence could somehow run amok is fiercely resisted by many computer scientists. . . . Yet the notion enjoys more credence today than a few years ago, partly thanks to Mr. Tegmark.??Wall Street Journal?This is a compelling guide to the challenges and choices in our quest for a great future of life, intelligence and consciousness-on Earth and beyond.? -Elon Musk, Founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX and co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors?All of us-not only scientists, industrialists and generals-should ask ourselves what can we do now to improve the chances of?eaping the benefits of future AI and avoiding the risks. This is the most important conversation of our time, and Tegmark?s thought-provoking?ook will help you join it.? -Professor Stephen Hawking, Director of Research, Cambridge Centre for Theoretical Cosmology ?Tegmark?s new book is a deeply thoughtful guide to the most important conversation of our time, about how to create a benevolent future civilization as we?erge our biological thinking with an even greater intelligence of our own creation.? -?Being an eminent physicist and the leader of the Future of Life Institute has given Max Tegmark a unique?antage point from which to give the reader an inside scoop o