Something New: AIs and Us
by David Orban
Read by Chapters
Chapter 1: Technology created humanity
Human evolution through technology: fire, agriculture, and our transformative relationship with tools
Chapter 2: The methods of knowledge
Scientific methods, open science, and how knowledge is created and shared
Chapter 3: Exponential change
Moore's Law, accelerating technological change, and understanding exponential growth
Chapter 4: Artificial intelligence
The nature of intelligence, Turing tests, and expert systems
Chapter 5: Artificial General Intelligence
Self-improving systems, intelligence explosion, and the emergence of AGI
Chapter 6: The power of evolution
Biological evolution, cultural evolution, and universal Darwinism
Chapter 7: Human machine coevolution
Symbiosis, augmentation, and our partnership with technology
Chapter 8: What to do today
Action steps for understanding, learning, and adapting to change
Chapter 9: What to do tomorrow
Building diverse, tolerant communities and new degrees of freedom
Chapter 10: What to do the day after tomorrow
Radical life extension, cryonics, mind uploading, and new forms of existence
Chapter 11: Are you one of us?
Final reflections on humanity's future and engagement with the singularity