Artificial Intelligence: Mankind at the Brink - Softcover

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Artificial Intelligence, Mankind at the Brink.
What happens when computers become as intelligent as humans, relegating us to the second most capable beings on Earth? The AI experts have been pondering these questions for more than half a century, and worrying about their possible consequences. The computers and their robots will be able to interpret the instructions originally given them to further their own agenda, and this might not turn out to be generous to humans. After all, humans have not been especially kind to the creatures, human or animal, over which we've had total control.
This book explores what might happen in this situation, especially as the Law of Unintended Consequences permits the computers to range far beyond what was intended for them by their designers. The computers might make themselves impervious to external attack by copying themselves in the cloud and creating clones They could compete with humans on every level, including obtaining their own funding, operating their own factories, launching space-borne weapons, and declaring war on every conceivable human institution.
Can this ultimate catastrophe be avoided? Perhaps the most difficult problem involves the interactions between the computers and their creators. Will the computer scientists be able to recognize when they are about to lose control of their system? But, will they be willing to terminate their project just as it gains the goals they’ve been working for years to have it achieve?
And what happens when a second AI computer achieves parity with the first, and challenges it for world supremacy?

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