Nick Bostrom’s book “Superintelligence” is woefully out of date. GPT4 has rendered much of it moot. Most of the key technologies had already been developed by the time he wrote the book.
Nick Bostrom’s book “Superintelligence” is woefully out of date. GPT4 has rendered much of it moot. Most of the key technologies had already been developed by the time he wrote the book.
It’s not bad as a piece of philosophy, but it could’ve been a lot better if he’d known more about IT (including the state of AI research at the time) and if he’d taken a trip down the Bitcoin rabbit hole (though to be fair, it was early days then).