Nick Bostrom: 5 books

«Lo consiglio vivamente. » Bill Gates «Da leggere assolutamente... Dobbiamo essere estremamente cauti con l’Intelligenza Artificiale. Potenzialmente, è più pericolosa del nucleare. » Elon Musk ««Non c’è alcun dubbio sulla forza degli argomenti di Bostrom. Il problema pone...

The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains...

Que se passera-t-il quand les machines surpasseront l’intelligence humaine  ? Les robots vont-ils nous sauver ou nous détruire  ? Isaac Asimov l’avançait dès 1942 avec ses trois lois de la robotique  : l’intelligence artificielle doit être contrôlée au plus profond de ses fondements...

An investigation of the nature and philosophical uses of number. The first volume of Collapse investigates the nature and philosophical uses of number. The volume includes an interview with Alain Badiou on the relation between philosophy, mathematics, and science, an in-depth interview with...

Anthropic Bias explores how to reason when you suspect that your evidence is biased by "observation selection effects"--that is, evidence that has been filtered by the precondition that there be some suitably positioned observer to "have" the evidence. This conundrum--sometimes...