Artificial Intelligence, Jerry Kaplan
Artificial Intelligence, Jerry Kaplan
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Artificial Intelligence
What Everyone Needs to Know

Author: Jerry Kaplan

Narrator: John Pruden

Unabridged: 4 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/23/2017


Synopsis

Artificial Intelligence is likely to greatly increase our aggregate wealth, but it will also upend our labor markets, reshuffle our social order, and strain our private and public institutions. Eventually it may alter how we see our place in the universe, as machines pursue goals independent of their creators and outperform us in domains previously believed to be the sole dominion of humans. Whether we regard them as conscious or unwitting, revere them as a new form of life or dismiss them as mere clever appliances, is beside the point. They are likely to play an increasingly critical and intimate role in many aspects of our lives.

The emergence of systems capable of independent reasoning and action raises serious questions about just whose interests they are permitted to serve, and what limits our society should place on their creation and use. Deep ethical questions that have bedeviled philosophers for ages will suddenly arrive on the steps of our courthouses.

And the answers may surprise you.

About Jerry Kaplan

Jerry Kaplan is widely known in the computer industry as a serial entrepreneur, technical innovator, and bestselling author. He is currently a fellow at the Center for Legal Informatics at Stanford University and teaches ethics and impact of artificial intelligence in the Computer Science Department.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Caren on August 02, 2015

Once I picked up this book, I couldn't put it down. It is written in a conversational style anyone can follow and unlike so many books on this topic, does not take a doomsday approach. The author, who teaches courses on the ethics and impact of artificial intelligence at Stanford University, has som......more

Goodreads review by Niklas on March 06, 2018

Stopped reading when chapter 8 begins with Kaplan saying that global warming isn’t a problem and that he welcomes an increase in temperature in his own city. Until that point the book had been a fairly standard AI-book about jobs and automation. The book hasn’t aged that well so you’ll probably find......more

Goodreads review by Andrej on April 14, 2016

This book provides a decent exploration of the future of automation. The first part of the book talks about AI/Machine Learning. This may have been a decent intro for someone completely new to the field, but for someone very much inside the field it was a little frustrating to read because of explan......more

Goodreads review by Jeneba on August 22, 2015

Scary. Maybe this is what an intelligent lobster feels like as it is being boiled. I always thought I would be smart enough to stay ahead of these trends. But I was brought up in an age that frowned upon unstoppable greed. Greed coupled with AI is terrifying.......more

Goodreads review by Karel on March 24, 2017

This quick read entertainingly and accurately presents the real present situation of AI automation, as "forged laborers" and "synthetic intelligences" take over most current employment, very quickly. Kaplan is right that they will own property and get legal personhood, because their (elite, politica......more