Our Final Invention by James Barrat

Our Final Invention by James Barrat

Elon Musk named Our Final Invention one of 5 books everyone should read about the future

A Huffington Post Definitive Tech Book of 2013

In as little as a decade, artificial intelligence could match and then surpass human intelligence. Corporations and government agencies around the world are pouring billions into achieving AI's Holy Grail--human-level intelligence. Once AI has attained it, scientists argue, it will have survival drives much like our own. We may be forced to compete with a rival more cunning, more powerful, and more alien than we can imagine.

Through profiles of tech visionaries, industry watchdogs, and groundbreaking AI systems, James Barrat's Our Final Invention explores the perils of the heedless pursuit of advanced AI. Until now, human intelligence has had no rival. Can we coexist with beings whose intelligence dwarfs our own? And will they allow us to?

James Barrat is a documentary filmmaker who has written and produced films for National Geographic, Discovery, PBS, and a variety of other American and European broadcasters. With his wife and two children, he lives near Washington, D.C.

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ISBN 13	9781250058782
ISBN 10	1250058783
Title	Our Final Invention
Author	James Barrat
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	St. Martin's Griffin
Year published	2015-02-17
Number of pages	352
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