If you’ve been watching the show, just like me, we must agree on the magnificent and seductive nature of developing consciousness and (or) other intelligent life forms with perfected skills. What an undergrad student would care about AI?ĭuring 2016, HBO launched a new show called WestWorld. There is no other way to call this book as an eye-opening experience towards the imminent technical, moral and philosophical struggles within AI development that will occur during the following years (centuries?) and here’s my personal review about it. As I kept reading, my understanding of “the big picture”, as it should be called, became clearly expanded. Last Christmas my uncle gave me this little book: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, by Nick Bostrom, and it captivated me from the very first pages.
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