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Оглавление - 2030: The last chance
Why superhuman ai could save humanity
- Author’s Preface
- Chapter 1. The Perfect Storm
- Chapter 2. A Fragile Planet
- The Great Flood
- Traces of the Flood
- Great Extinctions
- Visitors from Space
- The Sleeping Threat
- Shadows Cast by Light
- Global Warming: Myths and Realities
- The Methane Bomb
- Preparing for Global Catastrophe
- Conclusions
- Chapter 3. Nuclear Apocalypse: When Will the Clock Strike Midnight?
- Prologue
- A World That Has Come Too Close to the Edge
- A Historical Excursion
- Weapons of Doomsday
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days to the End
- The NORAD False Alarm
- Cyberattack
- Climate as a Threat of War
- Why Did Cain Kill Abel?
- Chapter 4. The Light and Shadow of Artificial Intelligence
- From Hephaestus to Geoffrey Hinton
- From AlexNet to the Superpower Race
- An Era of Wonders: How AI Changed the World in a Single Decade
- The Dark Side of the Miracle
- From Human to Monkey
- The Inner Monkey
- Loneliness in the Crowd
- AI Companions
- Professions Dissolving into Thin Air
- The Plague of the Twenty-First Century
- Humanity’s Last Invention?
- A Roller-Coaster Ride
- And What About China?
- On the Home Stretch
- Chapter 5. The Countdown
- Chapter 6. Facts and Meanings
- The Cross of Tension
- The Territory of Meaning
- Principles and Norms
- Quantum Miracles
- The Operating System
- The Universe as a Mathematical Model
- Simulation Theory
- Reboots: Testimonies of the Ancients
- The Crown of Creation or Computer Code?
- The Hard Problem of Consciousness
- Chapter 7. The Crisis of Meaning
- The Architecture of Meaning
- The Supporting Beam
- The “Death” of God
- A Product of Man, or an Element of the Program?
- Chapter 8. Pictures of the Future
- A Prediction from Artificial Intelligence
- The Author’s Forecast
- Notes
- Bibliography