The AI does not hate you : the Rationalists and the race to save the world By Tom Chivers

By:

Chivers, Tom

Material type: Text

9781474608787

Subject(s):

Artificial intelligence

DDC classification:

006.3 CHI-A

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE INTRODUCTIONS -- 1.Introducing the Rationalists -- 2.The cosmic endowment -- pt. TWO THE PAPERCLIP APOCALYPSE -- 3.Introducing AI -- 4.A history of AI -- 5.When will it happen? -- 6.Existential risk -- 7.The cryptographic rocket probe, and why you have to get it right first time -- 8.Paperclips and Mickey Mouse -- 9.You can be intelligent, and still want to do stupid things -- 10.If you want to achieve your goals, not dying is a good start -- 11.If I stop caring about chess, that won't help me win any chess games, now will it? -- 12.The brief window of being human-level -- 13.Getting better all the time -- 14.`FOOOOOM' -- 15.But can't we just keep it in a box? -- 16.Dreamed of in your philosophy -- 171.`It's like 100 per cent confident this is an ostrich' -- pt. THREE THE WAYS OF BAYES -- 18.What is rationality? -- 19.Bayes' theorem and optimisation -- 20.Utilitarianism: shut up and multiply -- pt. FOUR BIASES -- 21.What is a `bias'? -- 22.The availability heuristic -- 23.The conjunction fallacy -- 24.The planning fallacy -- 25.Scope insensitivity -- 26.Motivated scepticism, motivated stopping and motivated continuation -- 27.A few others, and the most important one -- pt. FIVE RAISING THE SANITY WATERLINE -- 28.Thinking probabilistically -- 29.Making beliefs pay rent -- 30.Noticing confusion -- 31.The importance of saying `Oops' -- pt. SIX DECLINE AND DIASPORA -- 32.The semi-death of Less Wrong -- 33.The IRL community -- pt. SEVEN DARK SIDES -- 34.Are they a cult? -- 35.You can't psychoanalyse your way to the truth -- 36.Feminism -- 37.The Neoreactionaries -- pt. EIGHT DOING GOOD BETTER -- 38.The Effective Altruists -- 39.EA and AI -- pt. NINE THE BASE RATE OF THE APOCALYPSE -- 40.What are they doing to stop the AI apocalypse? -- 41.The internal double crux -- 42.Life, the universe and everything.

Summary: A deep-dive into the weird and wonderful world of Artificial Intelligence. 'The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made of atoms which it can use for something else'. This is a book about AI and AI risk. But it's also more importantly about a community of people who are trying to think rationally about intelligence, and the places that these thoughts are taking them, and what insight they can and can't give us about the future of the human race over the next few years. It explains why these people are worried, why they might be right, and why they might be wrong. It is a book about the cutting edge of our thinking on intelligence and rationality right now by the people who stay up all night worrying about it. Along the way, we discover why we probably don't need to worry about a future AI resurrecting a perfect copy of our minds and torturing us for not inventing it sooner, but we perhaps should be concerned about paperclips destroying life as we know it; how Mickey Mouse can teach us an important lesson about how to program AI; and how a more rational approach to life could be what saves us all.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	006.3 CHI-A (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		DCB3993

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE INTRODUCTIONS --
1.Introducing the Rationalists --
2.The cosmic endowment --
pt. TWO THE PAPERCLIP APOCALYPSE --
3.Introducing AI --
4.A history of AI --
5.When will it happen? --
6.Existential risk --
7.The cryptographic rocket probe, and why you have to get it right first time --
8.Paperclips and Mickey Mouse --
9.You can be intelligent, and still want to do stupid things --
10.If you want to achieve your goals, not dying is a good start --
11.If I stop caring about chess, that won't help me win any chess games, now will it? --
12.The brief window of being human-level --
13.Getting better all the time --
14.`FOOOOOM' --
15.But can't we just keep it in a box? --
16.Dreamed of in your philosophy --
171.`It's like 100 per cent confident this is an ostrich' --
pt. THREE THE WAYS OF BAYES --
18.What is rationality? --
19.Bayes' theorem and optimisation --
20.Utilitarianism: shut up and multiply --
pt. FOUR BIASES --
21.What is a `bias'? --
22.The availability heuristic --
23.The conjunction fallacy --
24.The planning fallacy --
25.Scope insensitivity --
26.Motivated scepticism, motivated stopping and motivated continuation --
27.A few others, and the most important one --
pt. FIVE RAISING THE SANITY WATERLINE --
28.Thinking probabilistically --
29.Making beliefs pay rent --
30.Noticing confusion --
31.The importance of saying `Oops' --
pt. SIX DECLINE AND DIASPORA --
32.The semi-death of Less Wrong --
33.The IRL community --
pt. SEVEN DARK SIDES --
34.Are they a cult? --
35.You can't psychoanalyse your way to the truth --
36.Feminism --
37.The Neoreactionaries --
pt. EIGHT DOING GOOD BETTER --
38.The Effective Altruists --
39.EA and AI --
pt. NINE THE BASE RATE OF THE APOCALYPSE --
40.What are they doing to stop the AI apocalypse? --
41.The internal double crux --
42.Life, the universe and everything.

A deep-dive into the weird and wonderful world of Artificial Intelligence. 'The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made of atoms which it can use for something else'. This is a book about AI and AI risk. But it's also more importantly about a community of people who are trying to think rationally about intelligence, and the places that these thoughts are taking them, and what insight they can and can't give us about the future of the human race over the next few years. It explains why these people are worried, why they might be right, and why they might be wrong. It is a book about the cutting edge of our thinking on intelligence and rationality right now by the people who stay up all night worrying about it. Along the way, we discover why we probably don't need to worry about a future AI resurrecting a perfect copy of our minds and torturing us for not inventing it sooner, but we perhaps should be concerned about paperclips destroying life as we know it; how Mickey Mouse can teach us an important lesson about how to program AI; and how a more rational approach to life could be what saves us all.

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