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possible outcome AI might construct. today to create the best possible future
These multiple avenues include, but with it. The author deliberately avoids
are not limited to, “Gatekeeper” AI, one use of jargon as he believes that this is
which is super intelligent and safeguards a conversation which everybody needs
humanity from being disparaged to join in with. We have traditionally
by further more sophisticated thought of Intelligence being limited only
superintelligence; “Zookeeper” AI, to biological beings such as humans.
one which tames humans in a similar But for the author here, intelligence is
fashion as zoo animals; “Enslaved Gods” only a form of information processing
AI, one which keeps humans as slaves performed by elementary particles
and lastly “Benevolent Dictator” AI which moving around in conjunction with
on the surface attempts to be caring for the laws of Physics. However, Tegmark
the human race but intrinsically aims to suggests the laws of Physics do not
rule it. talk of Machines being able to be more
intelligent than biological beings.
With his background in the discipline
of physics, Tegmark next treats us to a There are multiple levels of questions
dream of things to come, "our infinite that the book tackles ranging from the
enrichment" he calls it, that anticipates career advice children need to be given
either ourselves, our artificial plunges, in this day and age of AI, to the more
or some cyborg combination thereof. extraneous one’s of whether we should
While visiting such obscure thoughts start an arms race of Lethal autonomous
as ‘Black hole Farming’ and ‘Uploading weapons in the near future. However,
of Brain’, Tegmark's narration stays the most important of all questions that
comprehensible and precise, with the author raises is what kind of future
rundowns of key ideas toward the do we want to be a part of. Because, and
finish of every part. The eye-catching as the author puts himself, if we don't
part from the book is the last section's know what we want then we are much
conversation of cognizance, including less likely to get it.
Guilio Tononi's integrated information Self-driving AI vehicles are as of now
theory. This becomes all the more confronting moral predicaments that
interesting as the idea of cognizance we don't have the foggiest idea how to
has not been dealt with in depth in other tackle. Who should bite the dust in an
books that discuss AI. Tegmark argues unavoidable auto collision? The passer
that in case AI is used to expand into by who heedlessly bounced into the
the cosmos, it's important that there is road? Or then again the driver, when
an availability of conscience and has a the vehicle dodges the passer by by
more moral and ethical value to creating crashing into a utility pole? As Tegmark
the artificial intelligence explosion. cites from thinker Nick Bostrom, we are
Although he doesn't hold a firm view, currently confronted with "Philosophy
he only covers multiple vantage points with a deadline."
from where artificial intelligence can
pose to be a boon or a bane to mankind. At no other time has a discussion about
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