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Surviving AI: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence

By: Calum Chace
Narrated by: Calum Chace
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Artificial intelligence is our most powerful technology and, in the coming decades, it'll change everything in our lives. If we get it right, it'll make humans almost godlike. If we get it wrong...well, extinction is not the worst possible outcome.

Surviving AI is a concise, easy guide to what's coming, taking you through technological unemployment (the economic singularity) and the possible creation of a superintelligence (the technological singularity).

©2015 Calum Chace (P)2015 Calum Chace Computer Science Machine Theory & Artificial Intelligence Science Technology Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Data Science

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Critic reviews

"Understanding AI - its promise and its dangers - is emerging as one of the great challenges of coming decades, and this is an invaluable guide to anyone who's interested, confused, excited, or scared." (David Shukman, BBC Science editor)
"We have recently seen a surge in the volume of scholarly analysis of this topic; Chace impressively augments that with this high-quality, more general-audience discussion." (Aubrey de Grey, CSO of SENS Research Foundation; former AI researcher)
"Calum Chace is a prescient messenger of the risks and rewards of artificial intelligence. In Surviving AI, he has identified the most essential issues and developed them with insight and wit - so that the very framing of the questions aids our search for answers. Chace's sensible balance between AI's promise and peril makes Surviving AI an excellent primer for anyone interested in what's happening, how we got here, and where we are headed." (Kenneth Cukier, co-author of Big Data)
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This is a well researched and well written book. It touches on the implications of AI, how we are developing it and how it may potentially impact humanity.

However, I don't think it gives the reader / listener much more content than we would get from reading a few articles on the subject. Worth reading if you have little to no knowledge about Artificial Intelligence though.

Good book, not revolutionary

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A really very balanced evaluation of: where we are with AI, what we need to do, what we should be afraid of and much more.
A definite recommendation for those who enjoy science fiction, even though this is very nearly science fact!

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Artificial General Intelligence (AGI or AI) is a very important topics for us all to understand, as it will dictate the future of our world. To get this education right is difficult, as it spans the simple everyday and the complex future all in one.

This book does a great job of explaining AI to all levels of audience including a layman, and will inform you so that you can become central to, or part of, this important debate, and not just a bystander.

Good overview of the major talking points of AI

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I am an AI enthusiast so I couldn't help myself from bingeing on this book. it covers most aspects of AI and discusses possibilities n understandably does not give a verdict as we just cannot know what is possible with AGI.
the audio repeats sometimes or trails off in some words. its a little annoying but sometimes it looks like its repeating some sentences for emphasis. so i guess it works out fine...

well written but buggy audio

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Coherent extrapolated volition is such a brilliant concept :). Some excellent reasoning and well balanced view points throughout the book

Very interesting discussion.

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