{"id":345,"date":"2019-04-05T14:47:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T11:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artificialbrain.xyz\/?p=345"},"modified":"2019-07-02T14:41:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T11:41:29","slug":"surviving-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newworldai.com\/surviving-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Surviving AI: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence..<\/strong> Good book for the curious about Artificial Intelligence. Calum Chace did a good job of providing an overview of the history of AI, how we got to where we are and some possibilities of what is to come. Fascinating look into our future..<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Artificial intelligence is our most powerful technology and, in the coming decades, it&#8217;ll change everything in our lives. If we get it right, it&#8217;ll make humans almost godlike. If we get it wrong&#8230;well, extinction is not the worst possible outcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Surviving AI is a concise, easy guide to what&#8217;s coming, taking you through technological unemployment (the economic singularity) and the possible creation of a superintelligence (the technological singularity).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Artificial intelligence is our most powerful technology, and in the coming decades it will change everything in our lives. If we get it right it will make humans almost godlike. If we get it wrong&#8230; well, extinction is not the worst possible outcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oJAlO3rdMpc\" width=\"760\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">This London Futurists event features author Calum Chace, sharing insights from his recently published book &#8220;Surviving AI&#8221;, and taking part in a conversation with the audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Here the contents of the book are;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"> <strong> Part One: ANI<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> 1. AI in the past and present<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> 2. Tomorrow\u2019s artificial narrow intelligence (ANI)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> 3. From digital disruption to economic singularity<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"> <strong> Part Two: AGI<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> 4. Can we make an artificial general intelligence (AGI)?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> 5. When might the first AGI arrive?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"> <strong> Part Three: ASI<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> 6. Will AGI lead to superintelligence (ASI)?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> 7. Will superintelligence be beneficial?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"> <strong> Part Four: FAI<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> 8. Can we ensure that superintelligence is \u201cfriendly\u201d (FAI)?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080; font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"> <strong> Conclusion: Surviving AI<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> 9. Summary, conclusions, recommendations<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h7lPLFvrmJg\" width=\"760\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Calum Chace writes and talks about the impact Artificial Intelligence has on humanity. In his ThinkNation talk he highlighted the amazing opportunities of AI plus explains why it&#8217;s one of the few genuine threats to mankind&#8217;s existence.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">\u201cUnderstanding AI \u2013 its promise and its dangers \u2013 is emerging as one of the great challenges of coming decades and this is an invaluable guide to anyone who\u2019s interested, confused, excited or scared.\u201d\u00a0David Shukman \u2013 BBC Science Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">\u201cCalum Chace is a prescient messenger of the risks and rewards of artificial intelligence. In \u201cSurviving AI\u201d he has identified the most essential issues and developed them with insight and wit \u2013 so that the very framing of the questions aids our search for answers. Chace\u2019s sensible balance between AI\u2019s promise and peril makes \u201cSurviving AI\u201d an excellent primer for anyone interested in what\u2019s happening, how we got here, and where we are headed.\u201d\u00a0Kenneth Cukier \u2013 co-author of \u201cBig Data\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">\u201cIf you\u2019re not thinking about AI, you\u2019re not thinking. \u201cSurviving AI\u201d combines an essential grounding in the state of the art with a survey of scenarios that will be discussed with equal vigor at cocktail parties and academic colloquia.\u201d\u00a0Chris Meyer \u2013 author of \u201cBlur\u201d, \u201cIt\u2019s Alive\u201d, and \u201cStanding on the Sun\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">\u201cThe appearance of Calum Chace&#8217;s book is of some considerable personal satisfaction to me, because it signifies the fact that the level of social awareness of the rise of massively intelligent machines has finally reached the mainstream. If you want to survive the next few decades, you cannot afford NOT to read Chace&#8217;s book.\u201d \u00a0Prof. Dr. Hugo de Garis \u2013 former director of the Artificial Brain Lab, Xiamen University, China<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Who is Calum Chace?<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"> <em> Calum studied philosophy at Oxford University, where he discovered that the science fiction he had been reading since early boyhood is actually philosophy in fancy dress.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><em>He published &#8220;Surviving AI&#8221;, a non-fiction review of the promise and peril of artificial intelligence in September 2015. Previously, he published &#8220;Pandora&#8217;s Brain&#8221;, a novel about the first conscious machine.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><em>He is a regular speaker on artificial intelligence and related technologies, and runs a blog on the subject at www.pandoras-brain.com.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><em>He is also the co-author of The Internet Startup Bible, a business best-seller published by Random House in 2000.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><em>Prior to writing Pandora&#8217;s Brain, Calum had a 30-year career in business, in which he was a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surviving AI: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence.. 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