Superintelligence vs The Alignment Problem: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Superintelligence Superintelligence Nick Bostrom · 2014 ★★★★☆ 4.0 352 pages · ≈ 6 h 31 m · Challenging

The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but…

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Cover of The Alignment Problem The Alignment Problem Brian Christian · 2020 ★★★★☆ 4.3 356 pages · ≈ 6 h 36 m · Moderate

"A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems-and the movement to fix them. Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and…

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SuperintelligenceThe Alignment Problem
Goodreads — 4.3 (5367)
Hardcover 5.0 (1) 4.2 (41)
Google Books 3.5 (4) —
Apple Books 4.0 (89) 4.0 (22)

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SuperintelligenceThe Alignment Problem
Ratings 89 5367
Editions 11 8
Film adaptations 1 —
Want to read — 22714
Reading it now — 1954
Written reviews — 622
Wikipedia attention 10955 1699
Pages 352 356

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