Artificial Intelligence and the Two Singularities

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8153-6854-0
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Reihe: Chapman & Hall/CRC Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Series

The science of AI was born a little over 60 years ago, but for most of that time its achievements were modest. In 2012 it experienced a big bang, when a branch of statistics called Machine Learning (and a sub-branch called Deep Learning) was applied to it. Now machines have surpassed humans in image recognition, and they are catching up with us at speech recognition and natural language processing. Every day, the media reports the launch of a new service, a new product, and a new demonstration powered by AI. When will it end? The surprising truth is, the AI revolution has only just begun.

Artificial Intelligence and the Two Singularities argues that in the course of this century, the exponential growth in the capability of AI is likely to bring about two "singularities" - points at which conditions are so extreme that the normal rules break down. The first is the economic singularity, when machine skill reaches a level that renders many of us unemployable and requires an overhaul of our current economic and social systems. The second is the technological singularity, when machine intelligence reaches and then surpasses the cognitive abilities of an adult human, relegating us to the second smartest species on the planet.

These singularities will present huge challenges, but this book argues that we can meet these challenges and overcome them. If we do, the rewards could be almost unimaginable.

This book covers:

• Recent developments in AI and its future potential

• The economic singularity and the technological singularity in depth

• The risks and opportunities presented by AI

• What actions we should take

Artificial intelligence can turn out to be the best thing ever to happen to humanity, making our future wonderful almost beyond imagination. But only if we address head-on the challenges that it will raise.

Calum Chace is a best-selling author of fiction and non-fiction books and articles, focusing on the subject of artificial intelligence. He is a regular speaker on artificial intelligence and related technologies, and runs a blog on the subject at www.pandoras-brain. com. Prior to becoming a full-time writer and speaker, he spent 30 years in business as a marketer, a strategy consultant, and a CEO. He studied philosophy at Oxford University, where he discovered that the science fiction he had been reading since boyhood was simply philosophy in fancy dress.

Zielgruppe

General and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chace, Calum

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Software Engineering
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Robotik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Theoretische Informatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part One: Artificial Intelligence

- An overnight sensation, after 60 years

- The state of the art: artificial narrow intelligence (ANI)

- Exponential improvement

- Tomorrow's AI

- Singularities

Part Two: The Technological Singularity

- How to make an artificial general intelligence (AGI)

- When might the first AGI arrive?

- From AGI to superintelligence (ASI)

- Will superintelligence be beneficial?

- Ensuring that superintelligence is friendly (FAI)

- The technological singularity: summary and conclusions

Part Three: The Economic Singularity

- The history of automation

- Is it different this time?

- The challenges

- Four scenarios

- Protopian un-forecast

- The economic singularity: summary and conclusions

Outroduction

Appendix: A survey of opinions on technological unemployment

Acknowledgements

Endnotes

Über Autor(innen)

Calum Chace is a best-selling author of fiction and non-fiction books and articles focusing on the subject of artificial intelligence. He is a regular speaker on artificial intelligence and related technologies, and runs a blog on the subject at www.pandoras-brain.com. Prior to becoming a full-time writer and speaker, he spent 30 years in business as a marketer,a strategy consultant, and a CEO. A long time ago he studied philosophy at Oxford University, where he discovered that the science fiction he had been reading since boyhood was simply philosophy in fancy dress.