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![]() The bulk of his book is devoted to exploring how we might survive our inevitable encounter with it. Bostrom sees superintelligence as a looming, existential threat, a tremendous power we are ill-equipped to handle. ![]() He also predicts how superintelligence will behave. (Courtesy of Nick Bostrom)īostrom predicts how we might achieve superintelligence – whether by emulating human minds on better hardware, turbocharging our biological brains, or building entirely from scratch. ![]() Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at the University of Oxford, and author of the new book Superintelligence. Unfortunately, the topic may be too ambitious to use as the basis for a cogent book. His task is ambitious no one knows what the first “superintelligent” computers will look like, nor when they will arrive. In his new book Superintelligence, philosopher Nick Bostrom searches for this answer. As the celebration quiets, the group gazes at its achievement – the greatest intellect in the known universe. Decades of study have led to this: the first artificial intelligence. ![]() Only the clacking of a few final keystrokes punctuates the hum of a supercomputer. A team of scientists stand huddled in some dimly-lit lab. Superintelligence navigates the speculative landscape of a world where computers have outsmarted humanity. ![]()
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