2062

The World that AI Made

Toby Walsh

• Publisher: La Trobe University Press
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781743820254
• Topic: Tecnología e ingeniería
• Subtopic: Robótica

2062 is the year by which we will have built machines as intelligent as us. This is what the majority of leading artificial intelligence and robotics experts now predict. But what will this future actually look like? When the quest to build intelligent machines has effectively been successful, how will life on this planet unfold? In 2062, Professor Toby Walsh, a world-leader in the field of artificial intelligence and one of 100 'rock stars' of Australia's digital revolution, considers the impact AI will have on work, war, politics, economics, everyday human life and, indeed, human death. Will automation take away jobs? Will robots become conscious and actually take over? Will we become immortal machines ourselves, uploading our brains to the cloud? How will political institutions adjust to the post-truth, post-privacy digitised world? What lies in store for homo digitalis – the people of the not-so-distant future who will be living amongst fully functioning artificial intelligence? Based on a deep understanding of technology and its implications, 2062 describes the choices we need to make today to ensure that future remains bright.

INDEX

Accenture 156

Adams, Douglas 84

Adams, Henry 54–5

advertising revenue 236–7

AdWords 210

Alciné, Jacky 159

Algeria 144

Algorithmic Justice League 157

Alibaba 217, 242

Allen Institute for AI 136

Allen, Paul 49

Alpha Zero 28

Alphabet 185, 188, 241, 260

AlphaGo 15–16, 18, 27–9, 56, 243

Amazon

Alexa 211

customer accounts 217

e-commerce 241

market capitalisation 185, 241–2

tax avoidance 188

American Association of Political Consultants 229

American Tobacco Company 186

Ancestry DNA testing 213–14

Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 [UK] 82

anthropocentricity 40–2

Apple

amount spent on lobbying 239

Apple Watch 212

co-learning speech recognition 10

DeepHeart 212

market capitalisation 185, 194

pressured by China 216

privacy 215–16

tax evasion 189

Argentina 144

Arms Control Association 143

arms race 137–9, 145

Article 36 weapon reviews 146–7

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) 31–2, 34–7, 90

artisans 122–3, 265

Asimov, Isaac 88

Asimov’s laws of robotics 88–9

AT&T 186

audio manipulation software 235

Australia

Data Retention Act 209

Google taxes 189

IKEA 189

lack of AI plan 251

open letter on autonomous weapons 144–5

road accidents 117

Royal Australian Navy 138

surveillance programs 218

trucking industry 118

UN Human Rights Council 145

Austria 144

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