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Author Hanson, Robin, 1959- author.

Title The age of em : work, love, and life when robots rule the Earth / Robin Hanson.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  303.483 HAN    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xi, 426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-416) and index.
Contents Basics. Start ; Modes ; Framing ; Assumptions ; Implementation -- Physics. Scales ; Infrastructure ; Appearances ; Information ; Existence ; Farewells -- Economics. Labor ; Efficiency ; Work ; Business ; Growth ; Lifecycle -- Organization. Clumping ; Groups ; Conflict ; Politics ; Rules -- Sociology. Mating ; Signals ; Collaboration ; Society ; Minds -- Implications. Variations ; Choices ; Finale.
Summary "Many thinkers believe that the next transformational change in human organization will be the onset of human-level artificial intelligence (the 'singularity'), and that the most likely method of achieving this will come through brain emulations or "ems": the ability to scan human brains and program their connections into ever faster computers. Taking this as his starting point, Hanson describes what a world dominated by these ems will be like"--Publisher's website.
Subject Social change -- Forecasting.
Technological innovations.
Artificial intelligence -- Forecasting.
Artificial intelligence -- Philosophy.
Artificial intelligence -- Forecasting. (OCoLC)fst01983695
Artificial intelligence -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst00817276
Social change -- Forecasting. (OCoLC)fst01122318
Technological innovations. (OCoLC)fst01145002
ISBN 0198754620
9780198754626
9780198817826
0198817827
Standard No. 99968437546
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