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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
I hope this thread can ultimately get along without being pulled down into old and well-worn rabbit holes of philosophical and religious discussion of consciousness. AI is a good topic for a thread and should have plenty of worthy ideas and news to discussion without reference to those debates. I would certainly find the thread more interesting that way.
For those just getting interested in the topic, Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence is a very informative book on the topic from 2014. Bostrom is the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford. He is a philosopher, but he really addresses practicalities of achieving different forms of artificial superintelligence in this book. |
Well, AI will cause a lot of different rabbit holes.
Can you give a brief overview of Bostrom's book? It's unlikely I'll get the book to read for myself in the near future, but am interested in what he has to say.