2062: The World that AI Made - Softcover

Walsh, Toby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1760640514 ISBN 13: 9781760640514

Publisher: La Trobe University Press, 2018

Synopsis

‘We’ve had the run of planet earth for the last few hundred thousand years: this amazing blue green dot, revolving around a rather typical star on a minor spiral arm of the Milky Way. We owe it to our child homo digitalis to get the next few decades right.’

2062 is the year by which we will have built machines as intelligent as us. This is what leading AI and robotics experts predict. But what will this future actually look like? When the quest to build intelligent machines has been successful, how will life on this planet unfold?

In 2062, Toby Walsh considers the impact AI will have on work, war, politics, economics, everyday human life and, indeed, human death. Will robots become conscious? Will automation take away jobs? Will we become immortal machines ourselves, uploading our brains to the cloud?

What lies in store for homo digitalis – the people of the not-so-distant future who will be living amongst fully functioning artificial intelligence? In the tradition of Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus, 2062 describes the choices we need to make today to ensure that future remains bright.

About this title

About the Author

Toby Walsh is a world-leader in the field of artificial intelligence, and has spent his life dreaming about machines that might think. He is a Professor of AI at the University of New South Wales and leads a research group at Data61, Australia's Centre of Excellence for ICT Research. Toby is a regular contributor to American Scientist, New Scientist and the Conversation.

Edition details

• Publisher: La Trobe University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1760640514
• ISBN 13: 9781760640514
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336