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The Big Nine : how the tech titans and their thinking machines could warp humanity

By: Webb, Amy, 1974-
Material type: BookPublisher: New York : PublicAffairs, c2019.Description: 320 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781541773752 (hbk.) :; 9781541724419 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects | Artificial intelligence -- Economic aspects | Internet industry -- Social aspects | Social responsibility of businessDDC classification: 006.301 WE BI Online resources: Location Map
Summary:
"A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. The big nine corporations (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple) may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity."--Provided by publisher.
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006.301 WE BI (Browse shelf) Checked out Mar2020 03/25/2024 T0063893
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006.301 BO SU Superintelligence : 006.301 TE LI Life 3.0 : 006.301 TE LI Life 3.0 : 006.301 WE BI The Big Nine : 006.30247948 BO AI AI for game developers / 006.30285 JO AI AI application programming / 006.31 AD VA Advances in social media analysis /

Formerly CIP. Uk

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ghosts in the machine -- Mind and machine : a very brief history of AI -- The insular world of AI's tribes -- A thousand paper cuts : AI's unintended consequences -- Our futures -- From here to artificial superintelligence : three warning signs -- Thriving in the third age of computing : the optimistic scenario -- Learning to live with millions of paper cuts : the pragmatic scenario -- The Rengong Zhineng Dynasty : the catastrophic scenario -- Solving the problems -- Pebbles and boulders : how to fix AI's future.

"A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. The big nine corporations (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple) may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity."--Provided by publisher.

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