Tool – not designed to exhibit goal-directed behaviour.Sovereign – open-ended autonomous operation that behaves in our best interests without explicit instructions.Genie – command-executing system (one job at a time).There are also plenty of useful tables to summarise his thinking, such as the types of AI that could be developed: I was happy to skip a few paragraphs here and there and still come out massively more informed than when I started.
I confess that some of the deeper discussions that involved philosophical arguments did go over my head – but I don’t think that spoilt the book for me.
Bostrom isn’t predicting when it might happen and therefore admits it’s impossible to know what technology will be involved, but the risks around producing something thousands of times more powerful than the brightest of human minds will be the same whatever technology is used. No technical knowledge of how AIs (non-superintelligent ones) are being developed now is required by the reader. how might we preclude, or at least, reduce these risks?īuy Superintelligence on Amazon (forewarned is forearmed!)* what are the dangers in building a superintelligence?ģ. how might a superintelligent general artificial-intelligence be created?Ģ. The book’s subtitle neatly sums up the content of this book – “paths, dangers, strategies” – which in summary means:ġ. Beyond Transhumanism: The Dangers of Transhumanist Philosophies on Human and Nonhuman Beings (Master of Arts thesis). Transhumanism - Engineering the Human Condition: History, Philosophy and Current Status. "Introduction: Gilgamesh Versus the Dragon-Tyrant". The YouTuber CGP Grey produced an animated adaptation in 2018 it was highly praised by the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation. It has been translated into multiple languages, including Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian and Spanish. The story has been published in Philosophy Now, and the Journal of Medical Ethics. The fable thus addresses the themes of death acceptance and resignation to fate in the face of ageing and critiques the pro-aging trance.
The story argues that humans for most of history have lacked the tools to fight the monster of death, but now the capacity to fight it may exist. It relates the misery inflicted by a dragon-tyrant (a personification of the ageing process and death), who demands a tribute of thousands of people's lives per day and the actions of the people, including the king, who come together to fight back, eventually killing the dragon-tyrant. " The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant" is a 2005 short story about ageing and death by the Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom. 2005 short story by Nick Bostrom The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
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