As computer intelligence advances, there will come a point when we can create a computer than can learn and improve itself. We can create artificial intelligence that can learn and improve when set specific challenges – such as winning at chess. The way it works is this: so far, we have been able to build computers and then progressively improve them. It’s also a safari into some of the biggest possible questions, from what it is to be human, to the end of the universe, or the existence of purpose and beauty.Īll of these questions are responses to the possibility of superintelligence. Life 3.0 is an introduction to the field of AI, a chance to deal with some misconceptions, and an invitation to discuss it. Max Tegmark is an MIT physics professor and founder of the Future of Life Institute. But let me press on for now and we’ll come back to some of them later. We haven’t got any further than the title, and I have questions. It doesn’t exist yet, but it may be on its way. This technological form of life would be able to learn and develop, but it could also design its own physical form. Finally, life 3.0 can change both its software and its hardware.It can ‘design its software’, as Tegmark puts it. Life 2.0 is a more adaptable form that can learn new skills, update its views of the world, and create culture.It can survive and replicate, but that’s about it. Life 1.0 is the simple biological life of plants and smaller animals.The ‘Life 3.0’ here needs a little explanation, so let me quickly outline the three levels of life that it refers to. Hence Max Tegmark’s new book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. I know very little about artificial intelligence (AI), but if people far smarter than me say it’s important, I figured I ought to read a bit about it. “The future of life with Artificial Intelligence,” says Max Tegmark, is “the most important conversation of our time.” I’ve heard similar claims a couple of times recently from other people, including Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates.

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