Title:
The Big Nine : how the tech titans and their thinking machines could warp humanity / Amy Webb.
ISBN:
9781541773752
9781541724419
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : PublicAffairs, [2019]
©2019
Physical Description:
320 pages ; 25 cm
General Note:
"March 2019"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Introduction : before it's too late -- Part I. Ghosts in the machine. Mind and machine : a very brief history of AI -- The insular world of AI's tribes -- A thousand paper cuts : AI's unintended consequences -- Part II. Our futures. From here to artificial superintelligence : the warning signs -- Thriving in the third age of computing : the optimistic scenario -- Learning to live with millions of paper cuts : the pragmatic scenario -- The Réngōng Zhìnéng Dynasty : the catastrophic scenario -- Part III. Solving the problems. Pebbles and boulders : how to fix AI's future.
Summary:
"A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. The big nine corporations (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple) may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity."--Provided by publisher.
OCLC Number:
on1060183461
Availability:
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