Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

This book takes expansive, complicated concepts and presents them in easier to understand language. It provides information on all aspects that we are capable of digesting at this point in time. It leaves the reader better informed and optimistic about our future with AI.

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Tegmark covers many aspects of AI in this book, which not only include a basic technical part to simplify how AI works, but also the different aspects that impact our society. A must read book to be more informed about AI and how we can contribute to a better future,by asking ourselves, and those around us, difficult questions about consciousness.

Artificial Intelligence or AI is the buzzword at top at present and everyone has a take on it and so Prof. Max Tegmark is not alone. Just before reading Life3.0, which is now few years old. Just before reading this I completed “Human Compatible” by Stuart Russel, another AI Pioneer. Just to mention that my reading of all the three books of Yuval Harari is still fresh. I am mentioning these references just to highlight that it is about the same great story – the past, present and future of humanity.I know Tegmark since I started doing my Ph.D. in cosmology and some of the early papers I read were written by Tegmark. I found him warm and remarkable, in the way his approach was lively and engaging and not cold and authoritarian as mostly is the case if academics. His curiosity looked genuine and his enthusiasm childlike. In early 2000s he was growing and has more enthusiasm and may be less depth. His scientific American article “Parallel Universe” was blockbuster. His account of the historical development of quantum mechanics remarkable and obviously from the very beginning he had privilege of being in company of John Wheeler, Nick Bostrom and Frank Wilczek. When I got a chance to meet Tegmark in 2006 in ICTP, Italy, where he as giving a course and I was one of the attendees, I had a chance to spend some time with him and I had a long list of questions which I was able to ask him and he answered most of them. Just to mention that at that time there was not much hype about AI and occasional philosophers with roots in physics and astrophysics were more interested in origin of the universe, definition of life, free will, space-time singularities and interpretation of quantum mechanics. Now fast forward 15 years and AI has overshadowed other profound questions and Tegmark switched the great and find himself engaging with AI questions. Some of the plus points of the books are as follows:1. It looks like a single coherent story, rather a bunch of disconnected story.2. The approach is quite honest, Tegmark mostly asks big questions and he never tries to give authentic answers of those, science there are none !3. This is a book which is written to be read and not put on bookshelf. He brings minimum technical stuff as required and fill the rest with ideas from other experts and his personal accounts.4. Whether AI will overtake humanity or not and for that what kind of safety protocols to be put in place that may be hard to converge on but Max is able to convince the need to solve the problem.5. The books has important references and the readers can check for more details.There are some negative points also of the book, or approach like the followings.1. Most of the ideas presented in the book are not new and Max just presented them in a new format.2. Money is important and it can be a great enabler or distractor and in most cases it is the second. So it is not clear how securing funding for AI safety can be considered an achievement.The last part of the book mostly talks about how we can regulate the AI research to make it safe and there are many suggestions. But now problem is that we know this approach does not work. After WWII we created United Nations but we know it failed to stop the misery of millions of people by superpower. Ukraine war is an example – the entire world is left on the mercy of one single detector who can press the red button any time. AI empowered superpowers may be much more dangerous than nuclear powered.Apart from AI safety, the book raises many other questions such as purpose and meaning of life, computation, complexity and consciousness. In short I will say anyone who is interested in deep questions must read this book.

El Libro se siente de material barato, nada resistente, aun no lo leo pero la portada parece que la hicieron en una imprenta cualquiera

Este libro es bueno, y habla sobre un tema complejo la cual es la inteligencia artificial.Este libro más que darte comida para tu imaginación, en cierta forma se enfoca más en definirte realmente lo que es la IA, te da una historia sobre la consciencia e inteligencia, y te propone diferentes caminos de lo que puede llegar a ser la IA.Evita los clichés por completo que ya se han formado en este tópico, y al contrario, te educa sobre la IA y te regala bastante en qué pensar.

Está hermoso!!! Además el contenido es fascinante, un libro indispensable para toda persona que en estos momentos se interese por la inteligencia artificial y lo que está será capaz de hacer mañana mismo.

El libro llego rápido, y es una lectura muy recomendable para los futuristas.

Va mas allá de lo que sabemos de Inteligencia Artificial. Habla de un futuro más lejano, en donde describe la vida de una forma mucho más general de la que conocemos y donde cabe cualquier "ser" capaz de generar información propia para determinar su comportamiento, modificar su "hardware" y poder replicarse. Debemos preocuparnos ? Tegmark da puntos donde sí debemos hacerlo y en otros donde se ve una gran esperanza para lograr cosas inimaginables. Está en nuestras manos hacía dónde y cómo lo queremos desarrollar. A veces siento al autor algo inocente y bien intencionado pero sin duda es un libro que hay que leer.

Muy buen libro solo con el detalle de que esta muy mal encuadernado, las páginas están muy mal por el costado. Fuera de eso todo muy bien.

Este libro es la secuela espiritual a , aunque con un lenguaje más claro que el de Bostrom, apto para los que no somos filósofos de la ciencia.El autor explora los posibles futuros que resultarían de la creación de una superinteligencia artificial, y aunque no sabemos que forma tomaría una I.A. de este tipo, bien vale la pena plantearse las preguntas necesarias para garantizar una evolución de I.A. segura para la humanidad, donde las metas y objetivos de las máquinas estén alineados con los nuestros.Cabe destacar el cuento de los Omegas, que hace las veces de preludio, ya que es en si mismo un excelente cuento de ciencia ficción y prepara la escena para los capítulos subsecuentes.--Sobre el encuadernado, no el contenido:Resulta un poco decepcionante adquirir un libro de pasta dura con los cuadernillos mal cortados, todos disparejos como muestran las fotos. Ahí se le pasó este detalle a control de calidad.

te llevara a darte cuenta que eres mas poderoso de lo que crees y que la evolucion es la ley de la vida, tienes que mantenert evolucionando y mejorando si esperas obtener lo que quieres de la vida!

Kartonnen verpakking was bij aankomst niet nat maar boek wel.duidelijk nat geweest dus wellicht al beschadigd verzonden. Erg jammer want was een kadootje.