Format:
Book
Author:
Webb, Amy, 1974- author.
Title:
The Big Nine : how the tech titans and their thinking machines could warp humanity / Amy Webb.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York, NY : PublicAffairs, [2019]
©2019
Description:
320 pages ; 25 cm
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.
Subjects:
Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects.
Artificial intelligence -- Economic aspects.
Internet industry -- Social aspects.
Social responsibility of business.
Other Title:
Big 9
Notes:
"March 2019"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-297) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : before it's too late -- Part I. 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 -- Part II. Our futures. From here to artificial superintelligence : the warning signs -- Thriving in the third age of computing : the optimistic scenario -- Learning to live with millions of paper cuts : the pragmatic scenario -- The Réngōng Zhìnéng Dynasty : the catastrophic scenario -- Part III. Solving the problems. Pebbles and boulders : how to fix AI's future.
LCCN:
2018048107
ISBN:
9781541773752
1541773756
* 9781541773745
* 9781541724419
1541724410
9781541724419
Other Number:
1060183461
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
393105
Call Number:
006.301 WEB 2019
Course Reserves:
0
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