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Singularity rising : surviving and thriving in a smarter, richer, and more dangerous world / by James D. Miller.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Dallas, TX : Benbella Books, c2012.Description: xix, 262 pages : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781936661657 (pbk.)
  • 1936661659 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 006.3 MIL
Contents:
Introduction -- PART1 : Rise of the Robots -- Exponentially Improving Hardware -- Where Might the Software Come From? -- Unfriendly AI Terrifies Me -- A Friendly Explosion -- Military Death Race -- Businesses' AI Race -- PART 2 : We Become Smarter, Even Without AI -- What IQ Tells You -- Evolution and Past Intelligence Enhancements -- Increasing IQ Through Genetic Manipulation -- Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs -- Brain Training -- International Competition in Human-Intelligence Enhancements -- PART 3: Economic Implications -- Making Us Obsolete? -- How Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs Might Impact the Economy -- Inequality Falling -- Preparing for the Singularity -- What Might Derail the Singularity? -- Singularity Watch.
Summary: Singularity Rising offers predictions about the economic implications for a future of widely expanding intelligence and practical career and investment advice on flourishing on the way to the Singularity.
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Book Book Bangalore 006.3 MIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available IIMB-83603
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-243) and index.

Introduction -- PART1 : Rise of the Robots -- Exponentially Improving Hardware -- Where Might the Software Come From? -- Unfriendly AI Terrifies Me -- A Friendly Explosion -- Military Death Race -- Businesses' AI Race -- PART 2 : We Become Smarter, Even Without AI -- What IQ Tells You -- Evolution and Past Intelligence Enhancements -- Increasing IQ Through Genetic Manipulation -- Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs -- Brain Training -- International Competition in Human-Intelligence Enhancements -- PART 3: Economic Implications -- Making Us Obsolete? -- How Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs Might Impact the Economy -- Inequality Falling -- Preparing for the Singularity -- What Might Derail the Singularity? -- Singularity Watch.

Singularity Rising offers predictions about the economic implications for a future of widely expanding intelligence and practical career and investment advice on flourishing on the way to the Singularity.

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