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Artificial general intelligence / Julian Togelius.
Explores the current state of Artificial General Intelligence and what the future might hold.
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- ISBN: 9780262549349
- ISBN: 0262549344
- Physical Description: 227 pages ; 18 cm.
- Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- A brief history of superhuman AI -- Intelligence (natural) -- Intelligence (artificial) -- Varieties of artificial general intelligence -- Practical AGI development -- Self-supervised learning of foundation models -- Open-ended learning in virtual worlds -- AGI and consciousness -- Superintelligence and the intelligence explosion -- AGI and society.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Emily Carr University of Art + Design | Q335 .T665 2024 (Text) | 30245324 | Book | Volume hold | Available | - |
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"Explores the current state of Artificial General Intelligence and what the future might hold"-- - Random House, Inc.
How to make AI capable of general intelligence, and what such technology would mean for society.
Artificial intelligence surrounds us. More and more of the systems and services you interact with every day are based on AI technology. Although some very recent AI systems are generalists to a degree, most AI is narrowly specific; that is, it can only do a single thing, in a single context. For example, your spellchecker canât do mathematics, and the world's best chess-playing program canât play Tetris. Human intelligence is different. We can solve a variety of tasks, including those we have not seen before. In Artificial General Intelligence, Julian Togelius explores technical approaches to developing more general artificial intelligence and asks what general AI would mean for human civilization.
Togelius starts by giving examples of narrow AI that have superhuman performance in some way. Interestingly, there have been AI systems that are superhuman in some sense for more than half a century. He then discusses what it would mean to have general intelligence, by looking at definitions from psychology, ethology, and computer science. Next, he explores the two main families of technical approaches to developing more general artificial intelligence: foundation models through self-supervised learning, and open-ended learning in virtual environments. The final chapters of the book investigate potential artificial general intelligence beyond the strictly technical aspects. The questions discussed here investigate whether such general AI would be conscious, whether it would pose a risk to humanity, and how it might alter society.