The Big Nine how the tech titans and their thinking machines could warp humanity

"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 an...

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Main Author: Webb, Amy, 1974- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : PublicAffairs, [2019]
Edition: First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : before it's too late
  • Part I. 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
  • Part II. Our futures. From here to artificial superintelligence : the warning signs
  • Thriving in the third age of computing : the optimistic scenario
  • Learning to live with millions of paper cuts : the pragmatic scenario
  • The Réngōng Zhìnéng Dynasty : the catastrophic scenario
  • Part III. Solving the problems. Pebbles and boulders : how to fix AI's future.