![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Moreover, the book highlights an unsettling implication that is straightforwardly philosophical rather than scientific: the epistemic limitations of empirically assessing AI risk.īostrom argues that humanity will likely develop a superintelligence, defined as ‘any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest’, sometime within our lifetimes. The book painstakingly explicates the philosophical implications of current research in developing a ‘superintelligence’, thereby offering tangible benefits from philosophical speculation while also drawing extensively from contemporary scientific developments. Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies directly challenges these attitudes. We philosophers wrestle with the exact same problems the Pre-Socratics wrestled with. Except for a patina of twenty-first century modernity, in the form of logic and language, philosophy is exactly the same now as it ever was it has made no progress whatsoever. ![]()
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