A Huffington Post Definitive Tech Book of 2013

Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the “smart” in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and transportation infrastructure. But Artificial Intelligence can also threaten our existence.

In as little as a decade, AI could match and then surpass human intelligence. Corporations and government agencies are pouring billions into achieving AI’s Holy Grail—human-level intelligence. Once AI has attained it, scientists argue, it will have survival drives much like our own. We may be forced to compete with a rival more cunning, more powerful, and more alien than we can imagine.

Through profiles of tech visionaries, industry watchdogs, and groundbreaking AI systems, Our Final Invention explores the perils of the heedless pursuit of advanced AI. Until now, human intelligence has had no rival. Can we coexist with beings whose intelligence dwarfs our own? And will they allow us to?

赫芬顿邮报》2013年的一本权威科技书

人工智能帮助选择你买什么书，看什么电影，甚至和谁约会。它在你的智能手机中加入了 "智能"，很快它将驾驶你的汽车。它在华尔街做大部分交易，并控制重要的能源、水和交通基础设施。但人工智能也会威胁到我们的生存。

在短短十年内，人工智能可以与人类智力相媲美，然后超越人类智力。公司和政府机构正投入数十亿美元来实现人工智能的圣杯--人类水平的智能。科学家们认为，一旦人工智能达到了这个水平，它的生存动力就会和我们的一样。我们可能被迫与一个比我们想象的更狡猾、更强大、更陌生的对手竞争。

通过对科技远见者、行业监督者和突破性的人工智能系统的介绍，《我们最终的发明》探讨了不顾一切地追求先进人工智能的危险。直到现在，人类的智慧还没有对手。我们能否与那些智力比我们高的生物共存？他们会允许我们这样做吗？