{"product_id":"our-final-invention-artificial-intelligence-and-the-end-of-the-human-era-paperback","title":"Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eI wish it was science fiction,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebut I know it's not' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we'll soon have no choice but to address, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003emake it this one\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ebest book yet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e written on the most important problem of the twenty-first century' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLuke Muehlhauser, Executive Director, Machine Intelligence Research Institute\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Science fiction has long explored the implications of humanlike machines, but Barrat's thoughtful treatment adds \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ea dose of reality'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eScience News\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCorporations and government agencies around the world have for years been pouring billions into achieving AI's Holy Grail - human-level intelligence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce AI has attained it, scientists argue, it will have survival drives much like our own. We may be forced to compete with a rival more cunning, more powerful, and more alien than we can imagine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published ten years ago, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOur Final Invention\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epredicted much of the artificial 'intelligence explosion' that is now ripping through our culture. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNow with an urgent new preface, James Barrat's landmark work explores the ethics, history and future perils of the heedless pursuit of advanced AI.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUntil now, human intelligence has had no rival. Can we coexist with beings whose intelligence dwarfs our own? And will they allow us to?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Barrat","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43144634794162,"sku":"9781529434620","price":305.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781529434620.jpg?v=1752648357","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/our-final-invention-artificial-intelligence-and-the-end-of-the-human-era-paperback","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}