‘Smarter Than Us’ Released by the Machine Intelligence Research Institute

Want to know about the future of artificial intelligence? Until today, your best 3 choices were probably:

The sequences? — Good, but far too long.

Facing the Intelligence Explosion? — Good, but dwells on atheism.

Our final invention? — Good, but still an investment at 266 pages.

Now there’s another option: ‘Smarter Than Us’ by Stuart Armstrong.

Check it out if you want a quick and engaging introduction into the future of artificial intelligence.

Louie Helm is a Machine Learning Engineer

February 18
Joe Mustard

Is there an alternative to the sequences that’s written to optimise for conveying useful information to an intelligent layman?
February 18
Tai Nguyen

Only $5? Bought and sent to my Kindle. Thanks for the rec 🙂
February 18
Paul Crowley

Joe: a new book version of the Sequences is coming out soon, should be a bit more digestible.
February 18
Malo Bourgon

@Joe, Good and Real covers a lot of the same ideas as the Sequences. I would recommend it.
February 18
Malcolm Ocean

This could desperately use a positive review on Amazon. Currently just has a 1-star from “Richard L.”
February 19
Luke Muehlhauser

Yeah, that’s Richard Loosemore, a long-time MIRI troll.
February 19
Trent Fowler

Are Richard’s critiques addressed systematically anywhere?
February 19
Paul Crowley

Trent: practically everyone who hears about the Friendly AI problem comes up with an easy fix within 15 minutes. MIRI can’t systematically address all of them.
February 19
Luke Muehlhauser

Trent: Loosemore refers to a paper that isn’t published yet, so I can’t really say, but for a very long debate on similar issues, see the debate between Loosemore and RobBB here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/igf/the_genie_knows_but_doesnt_care/
February 19
Alexander Macrae

Thanks Louie – must look into that option.