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Books like Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom is about artificial intelligence, existential risk, ai safety. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark · Science
Life 3.0 is Max Tegmark's accessible survey of the questions raised by the prospect of human-level and superhuman artificial intelligence: What are the plausible paths to AGI?
Read the summary → - Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Stuart Russell · Science
Human Compatible is Stuart Russell's argument, from inside mainstream AI research, that the standard model of AI — build a system that optimizes for a fixed objective — is the wrong approach, and that the transition to much more capable AI systems requires a fundamental change in how AI is designed.
Read the summary → - The Master Algorithm
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Pedro Domingos · Science
The Master Algorithm is Pedro Domingos's survey of machine learning — the field of computer science that creates algorithms capable of learning from data — organized around a central speculative thesis: that there exists, or may be found, a single master algorithm from which all learning can be derived.
Read the summary → - The Singularity Is Near
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Ray Kurzweil · Science
The Singularity Is Near is Ray Kurzweil's forecast that the exponential growth of information technology — computing power, storage, bandwidth, and the reverse-engineering of the human brain — will produce a technological singularity around 2045: a point at which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence in all relevant domains, beyond which we cannot reliably predict what happens.
Read the summary → - Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan · Science
Pale Blue Dot takes its title from a photograph taken by Voyager 1 in 1990, as it left the solar system, at Sagan's request.
Read the summary → - A Brief History of Time
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Stephen Hawking · Science
A Brief History of Time is Stephen Hawking's attempt to explain the biggest questions in physics — where the universe came from, how it behaves, and where it might be going — to readers with no scientific training.
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