/lit/ - Literature

>>11083374
Well it's basically just an excellent contemporary summary of the current nature of the AI field, and the vast if not endless impacts it could have on human life. The author opens by telling a short fiction story about a realistic AI takeover, then throughout the books refers back to it, talking about what went wrong or right.

I wouldn't normally mention it in our fiction board, but the novel encompasses so many classical elements of AI-based scifi and weaves these principles around real theories and studies to the point where you actually start to find them believable. It's essentially the hard sci-fi writers dream.

He starts talking about very grounded concepts, how AI might arise, it's breakout, or misuse by authoritarian regimes. This gradually ramps into how entire societies or the world could benefit or suffer from the maturation of AI into more advanced forms. Then towards the end of the book he goes absolutely nuts, starts talking about bonkers concepts like pic related.
>Figure 6.10: If life evolves independently at multiple points in spacetime (places and times) and starts colonizing space, then space will contain a network of expanding cosmic biospheres, each of which resembles the top of the champagne glass from figure 6.7. The bottom of each biosphere represents the place and time when colonization began. The opaque and translucent champagne glasses correspond to colonization at 50% and 100% of the speed of light, respectively, and overlaps show where independent civilizations meet

Like I said, I can't recommend this shit enough, one of my favourite non-fiction books I've ever read.