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  • Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
  • Written by: Max Tegmark
  • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
  • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (364 ratings)

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Life 3.0

Written by: Max Tegmark
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
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Publisher's Summary

How will artificial intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society, and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology - and there's nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who's helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.

How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving people lacking income or purpose? What career advice should we give today's kids? How can we make future AI systems more robust so that they do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning, or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, replacing humans on the job market and perhaps altogether? Will AI help life flourish like never before or give us more power than we can handle?

What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. It doesn't shy away from the full range of viewpoints or from the most controversial issues - from superintelligence to meaning, consciousness, and the ultimate physical limits on life in the cosmos.

©2017 Max Tegmark (P)2017 Random House Audio

What the critics say

"This is a compelling guide to the challenges and choices in our quest for a great future of life, intelligence and consciousness - on Earth and beyond." (Elon Musk, founder, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX and cofounder and CEO of Tesla Motors)
"All of us - not only scientists, industrialists and generals - should ask ourselves what can we do now to improve the chances of reaping the benefits of future AI and avoiding the risks. This is the most important conversation of our time, and Tegmark's thought-provoking book will help you join it." (Professor Stephen Hawking, director of research, Cambridge Centre for Theoretical Cosmology)
"Tegmark's new book is a deeply thoughtful guide to the most important conversation of our time, about how to create a benevolent future civilization as we merge our biological thinking with an even greater intelligence of our own creation." (Ray Kurzweil, inventor, author, and futurist, author of The Singularity Is Near and How to Create a Mind)

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This performance bit is driving me crazy

1) It's "h tee tee pee colon slash slash" not "h tee tee pee colon backslash backslash" - how do the voice over artist and editors not know the difference between a slash and a backslash?

2) The last time I heard someone make the mistake of including the protocol (http://) in a URL when verbally referring to a URL was in the 90s.

It might be helpful to find someone a little more in touch with technology to voice such a technology-heavy book.

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Truly fascinating

Absolutely fascinating read, a truly intelligent look at the future of AI. This is very compelling hosting a variety of topics that make you think and question the future of AI.

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Fantastic

One of the best books out there in AI and the future of machine intelligence. Hugely helpful in this format is the stellar narration by Rob Shapiro. Similarly important books like Superintelligence and The Singularity is Near were so poorly narrates that I found them impossible to get through. Great job.

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Overall an awesome AudioBook!

Starting with the negatives, sometimes the book felt a little redundant as some points seemed obvious after others were already stated. Or in some cases things were straight up stated multiple times.

That said, overall I found the subject matter very fascinating, and also pretty damn worrisome for the future of mankind. But in all honesty, it's been worrying since before listening to this AudioBook, so that's nothing new.

Definitely recommend. It's a book for everyone and anyone curious about what tomorrow might bring.

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listen to it!! relevant for all of our future.

great story. really smart. sometimes feels like it is In a fantastic place. like he's a quack or in a super realistic, sort fantastic possibility. both negative and positive

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Just great !

Opened my mind about AI and how our future is going to look like. Love it

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Enlightening

The good and bad associated with AI. Fabulous book. I recommend to anyone who has an interest in AI to read this book.

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A must

Very good. I would say every one should read this for opening there idea. Great

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very bland

This sort of book was done years ago and much better by other authors. It's a boring rehash of familiar concepts

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overall interesting with some great stories

a bunch of it was meh, but lots of it is still really good and definitely made me think about a type of future I never thought of before

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