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The Big Nine : how the tech titans and their thinking machines could warp humanity / Amy Webb.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: eng Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, 2019Description: 320 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781541773752 (hardcover)
  • 1541773756 (hardcover)
Other title:
  • Big 9
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 006.301
LOC classification:
  • Q 334.7 W365b 2019
Contents:
Ghosts in the machine -- Mind and machine : a very brief history of AI -- The insular world of AI's tribes -- A thousand paper cuts : AI's unintended consequences -- Our futures -- From here to artificial superintelligence : three warning signs -- Thriving in the third age of computing : the optimistic scenario -- Learning to live with millions of paper cuts : the pragmatic scenario -- The Rengong Zhineng Dynasty : the catastrophic scenario -- Solving the problems -- Pebbles and boulders : how to fix AI's future.
Summary: "A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. The big nine corporations (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple) may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity."--Provided by publisher.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) Q 334.7 W365b 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000155311

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ghosts in the machine -- Mind and machine : a very brief history of AI -- The insular world of AI's tribes -- A thousand paper cuts : AI's unintended consequences -- Our futures -- From here to artificial superintelligence : three warning signs -- Thriving in the third age of computing : the optimistic scenario -- Learning to live with millions of paper cuts : the pragmatic scenario -- The Rengong Zhineng Dynasty : the catastrophic scenario -- Solving the problems -- Pebbles and boulders : how to fix AI's future.

"A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. The big nine corporations (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple) may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity."--Provided by publisher.

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