Upcoming book: "Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era"

post by lukeprog · 2011-10-06T15:14:16.259Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 3 comments

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Announced here. Full title is Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era. The author is James Barrat, best known (for now) for his TV documentaries. I chatted with him online; he'll be at this year's Singularity Summit.

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comment by Halfwitz · 2013-10-27T22:38:24.164Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Just read it. It was pretty good. It was far better than Singularity Rising and provided a decent summery of MIRI and FHI's arguments.

comment by lukeprog · 2013-03-07T12:01:49.444Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

The book is now available for pre-order. Luckily, according to the author, MIRI changed its name just in time for that change to propagate to the manuscript. MIRI's research is featured pretty heavily in the book.

comment by [deleted] · 2011-10-07T03:45:48.039Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Interesting topic! I will look into it, thank you for sharing.