Most work on one-trick ponies – the “narrow” AIs that process speech, translate languages, spot people in crowds, diagnose diseases, or whip people at games from Go to Starcraft II. Tens of thousands of the world’s brightest minds are now building AIs. Here he makes the convincing case that how we choose to control AI is “possibly the most important question facing humanity”. Creating machines that surpass our intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. But Russell, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, sees darker eventualities. Perhaps, as Richard Brautigan’s poem has it, life is good when we are all watched over by machines of loving grace. The result is surely the most important book on AI this year. In Human Compatible, Russell returns to the question and this time does not hold back. A lot has happened since: – Google and Facebook for starters. “The trends seem not to be too terribly negative,” they offered. In the final pages of the last chapter, the authors posed the question themselves: what if we succeed? Their answer was hardly a ringing endorsement. Co-authored with Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach became one of the most popular course texts in the world (Norvig worked for Nasa in 2001, he joined Google). In 1995, Stuart Russell wrote the book on AI.
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