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Libro interessante, percorre agevolmente scenari futuri in cui la super intelligenza sarà presente. Secondo me non è per tutti non tanto per il livello di inglese quanto per i concetti non proprio quotidiani

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Mario d'Aniello

Molto interessante

Recensito in Italia 🇮🇹 il 5 luglio 2019

Il libro esplora praticamente ogni scenario possibile dello sviluppo di una intelligenza superiore alla nostra (non per forza artificiale).

Riesce a farti riflettere sulla direzione che l'umanità può intraprendere in futuro.

Il libro è a tratti scorrevole e a tratti fin troppo tecnico, e per questo, per non perdere alcuni concetti chiave, potrebbe risultare più chiara la versione italiana.

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Fantastica ricostruzione dello stato attuale e futuro sulle AI

Dcilibe

Recensito in Italia 🇮🇹 il 23 luglio 2017

Il libro è senza dubbio un buon inizio per cominciare a capire cosa sono le AI e i possibili scenari futuri del suo sviluppo.
Talvolta è un po' troppo prolisso sulla descrizione di possibili scenari, ipotizzando svariate possibili casistiche, a volte basate su supposizioni troppo articolate.

Recensito in Italia 🇮🇹 il 17 maggio 2017

I think it's not an easy book to read. He tried to dig deep in many issues, sometimes also in some still undiscovered problems. I think it is really a good one!
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Mimi

Very interesting

Recensito in Italia 🇮🇹 il 9 settembre 2019

Super interesting lecture. I really recommend thia book if you want to know more about AI.
If you want to understand what we will face in the future, thia book is made for you.

Euristic

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Recensito in Italia 🇮🇹 il 27 febbraio 2018

Affronta un tema difficile ai limiti della fantascienza: studiare come possa essere ed agire una intelligenza superiore a quella umana pur avendo per definizione una intelligenza inferiore. Eppure ci sono molti spunti interessanti e materiale per una ventina di romanzi/film di fantascienza

A disappointing and "human, all too human" discusson of a possible posthuman evolution

Stefano Sutti

Recensito in Italia 🇮🇹 il 21 luglio 2015

Even though the subject appears to have been extensively researched and thought out, and in spite of the occasional spark of brilliancy, I found the book essentially naive from a philosophical point of view. While the narrative espoused by the author can easily be deconstrued as the umpteenth recapitulation of the Golem mythology under a thin secular veneer, the underlying choice of values is largely implicit, acritical and taken for granted, and at least in part is likely to be found repulsive by anybody with a posthumanist, Futurist or Nietzschean mindset. All in all, this book probably epitomises the final departure of Nick Bostrom from the transhumanist camp.

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libro super analitico e super inutile

DrBourbon

Recensito in Italia 🇮🇹 il 1 febbraio 2019

libro a tratti interessante ma viziato da un’esposizione iper-analitica che in realtà nasconde assunzioni arbitrarie sulla natura dell’intelligenza e della condizione umana. la padronanza del modus ponens da parte dell’autore può risultare rassicurante, ma nasconde un vuoto di ethos sconfortante. bibliografia meritevole, ma lettura inutile

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IkeF

Philosophical theorizing about the possible risks of some possible kinds of AI

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 13 agosto 2018

The first chapter is an interesting, concise history of AI. The following chapters, though... I have to say that if anything, Bostrom's writing reminds me of theology. It's not lacking in rigor or references. Bostrom seems highly intelligent and well-read. The problem (for me) is rather that the main premise he starts with is one that I find less than credible. Most of the book boils down to "Let's assume that there exists a superintelligence that can basically do whatever it wants, within the limits of the laws of physics. With this assumption in place, let's then explore what consequences this could have in areas X, Y, and Z." The best Bostrom can muster in defense of his premise that superintelligence will (likely) be realized (sometime in the future) are the results of various surveys of AI researchers about when they think human-level AI and superintelligence will be achieved. These summaries don't yield any specific answer as to when human-level AI will be attained (it's not reported ), and Bostrom is evasive as to what his own view is. However, Bostrom seems to think, if you don't commit to any particular timeline on this question, you can assume that at some point human-level AI will be attained. Now, once human-level AI is achieved, it'll be but a short step to superintelligence, says Bostrom. His argument as to why this transition period should be short is not too convincing. We are basically told that the newly developed human-level AI will soon engineer itself (don't ask exactly how) to be so smart that it can do stuff we can't even begin to comprehend (don't ask how we can know this), so there's really no point in trying to think about it in much detail. The AI Lord works in mysterious ways! With these foundations laid down, Bostrom can then start his speculative tour-de-force that goes through various "existential risk" scenarios and the possibilities of preventing or mitigating them, the economics of AI/robot societies, and various ethical issues relating to AI. I found the chapters on risks and AI societies to be pure sci-fi with even less realism than "assume spherical cows". The chapters on ethics and value acquistion did however contain some interesting discussion.

All in all, throughout the book I had an uneasy feeling that the author is trying to trick me with a philosophical sleight of hand. I don't doubt Bostrom's skills with probability calculations or formalizations, but the principle "garbage in - garbage out" applies to such tools also. If one starts with implausible premises and assumptions, one will likely end up with implausible conclusions, no matter how rigorously the math is applied. Bostrom himself is very aware that his work isn't taken seriously in many quarters, and at the end of the book, he spends some time trying to justify it. He makes some self-congratulatory remarks to assure sympathethic readers that they are really smart, smarter than their critics (e.g. "[a]necdotally, it appears those currently seriously interested in the control problem are disproportionately sampled from one extreme end of the intelligence distribution" [p. 376]), suggests that his own pet project is the best way forward in philosophy and should be favored over other approaches ("We could postpone work on some of the eternal questions for a little while [...] in order to focus our own attention on a more pressing challenge: increasing the chance that we will actually have competent successors" [p. 315]), and ultimately claims that "reduction of existential risk" is humanity's principal moral priority (p. 320). Whereas most people would probably think that concern for the competence of our successors would push us towards making sure that the education we provide is both of high quality and widely available and that our currently existing and future children are well fed and taken care of, and that concern for existential risk would push us to fund action against poverty, disease, and environmental degradation, Bostrom and his buddies at their "extreme end of the intelligence distribution" think this money would be better spent funding fellowships for philosophers and AI researchers working on the "control problem". Because, if you really think about it, what of a millions of actual human lives cut short by hunger or disease or social disarray, when in some possible future the lives of 10^58 human emulations could be at stake? That the very idea of these emulations currently only exists in Bostrom's publications is no reason to ignore the enormous moral weight they should have in our moral reasoning!

Despite the criticism I've given above, the book isn't necessarily an uninteresting read. As a work of speculative futurology (is there any other kind?) or informed armchair philosophy of technology, it's not bad. But if you're looking for an evaluation of the possibilites and risks of AI that starts from our current state of knowledge - no magic allowed! - then this is definitely not the book for you.

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RReeve

Extreamly interesting

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 23 settembre 2022

I bought this book after listening to Nick Bostrom on the Joe Rogan podcast. This book cuts through all of the artifical intelligence nonsense that people talk about and it gave me a much better understanding of the technology.

I used to fear ai but now I know how far away we are from any real world dangers. Ai is still very early and there are some enormous obstacles to get past before we see real intelligence that beats the Turin test/imitation game every single time. Infact, some experts say that the Turin test is too easy and we need to come up with a better method to measure the abilities and limitations of an ai subject. I agree with that.

Extreamly interesting read. Great book.

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Anthony Gray

Stretching.

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 14 gennaio 2022

This book goes well beyond its remit and stretches off into fanciful flights of whimsy far far into the future. This completely put me off. It's also terribly written. As a long time popular science and philosophy reader this book was hard going, bored me to tears and was largely uninsightful.

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John Marsden

Superintelligence Explain, but not for Dummies

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 6 luglio 2016

It was persistent recommendation through listening to Sam Harris’ fine podcasts that eventually convinced me to read this book.

Nick Bostrom spells out the dangers we potentially face from a rogue, or uncontrolled, superintelligences unequivocally: we’re doomed, probably.

This is a detailed and interesting book though 35% of the book is footnotes, bibliography and index. This should be a warning that it is not solely, or even primarily aimed at soft science readers. Interestingly a working knowledge of philosophy is more valuable in unpacking the most utility from this book than is knowledge about computer programming or science. But then you are not going to get a book on the existential threat of Thomas the Tank engine from the Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University.

Also a good understanding of economic theory would also help any reader.

Bostrom lays out in detail the two main paths to machine superintelligence: whole brain emulation and seed AI and then looks at the transition that would take place from smart narrow computing to super-computing and high machine intelligence.

At times the book is repetitive and keeps making the same point in slightly different scenarios. It was almost like he was just cut and shunting set phrases and terminology into slightly different ideas.

Overall it is an interesting and thought provoking book at whatever level the reader interacts with it, though the text would have been improved by more concrete examples so the reader can better flesh out the theories.

“Everything is vague to a degree you do not realise till you have tried to make it precise” the book quotes.

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Robnarc

A seminal book. Challenging but readable, the urgency is real.

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 29 giugno 2017

A clear, compelling review of the state of the art, potential pitfalls and ways of approaching the immensely difficult task of maximising the chance that we'll all enjoy the arrival of a superintelligence. An important book showcasing the work we collectively need to do BEFORE the fact. Given the enormity of what will likely be a one-time event, this is the position against which anyone involved in the development of AI must justify their approach, whether or not they are bound by the Official Secrets Act.

The one area in which I feel Nick Bostrom's sense of balance wavers is in extrapolating humanity's galactic endowment into an unlimited and eternal capture of the universe's bounty. As Robert Zubrin lays out in his book Entering Space: Creating a Space-Faring Civilization , it is highly unlikely that there are no interstellar species in the Milky Way: if/when we (or our AI offspring!) develop that far we will most likely join a club.

The abolition of sadness , a recent novella by Walter Balerno is a tightly drawn, focused sci fi/whodunit showcasing exactly Nick Bostrom's point. Once you start it pulls you in and down, as characters develop and certainties melt: when the end comes the end has already happened...

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