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Architects of Intelligence

By : Martin Ford
Book Image

Architects of Intelligence

By: Martin Ford

Overview of this book

How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? Architects of Intelligence contains a series of in-depth, one-to-one interviews where New York Times bestselling author, Martin Ford, uncovers the truth behind these questions from some of the brightest minds in the Artificial Intelligence community. Martin has wide-ranging conversations with twenty-three of the world's foremost researchers and entrepreneurs working in AI and robotics: Demis Hassabis (DeepMind), Ray Kurzweil (Google), Geoffrey Hinton (Univ. of Toronto and Google), Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics), Yann LeCun (Facebook) , Fei-Fei Li (Stanford and Google), Yoshua Bengio (Univ. of Montreal), Andrew Ng (AI Fund), Daphne Koller (Stanford), Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley), Nick Bostrom (Univ. of Oxford), Barbara Grosz (Harvard), David Ferrucci (Elemental Cognition), James Manyika (McKinsey), Judea Pearl (UCLA), Josh Tenenbaum (MIT), Rana el Kaliouby (Affectiva), Daniela Rus (MIT), Jeff Dean (Google), Cynthia Breazeal (MIT), Oren Etzioni (Allen Institute for AI), Gary Marcus (NYU), and Bryan Johnson (Kernel). Martin Ford is a prominent futurist, and author of Financial Times Business Book of the Year, Rise of the Robots. He speaks at conferences and companies around the world on what AI and automation might mean for the future. This is the hardcover edition of the book.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Architects of Intelligence
Introduction
2
YOSHUA BENGIO
3
STUART J. RUSSELL
4
GEOFFREY HINTON
5
NICK BOSTROM
6
YANN LECUN
7
FEI-FEI LI
8
DEMIS HASSABIS
9
ANDREW NG
10
RANA EL KALIOUBY
11
RAY KURZWEIL
12
DANIELA RUS
13
JAMES MANYIKA
14
GARY MARCUS
15
BARBARA J. GROSZ
16
JUDEA PEARL
17
JEFFREY DEAN
18
DAPHNE KOLLER
19
DAVID FERRUCCI
20
RODNEY BROOKS
21
CYNTHIA BREAZEAL
22
JOSHUA TENENBAUM
23
OREN ETZIONI
24
BRYAN JOHNSON
25
When Will Human-Level AI be Achieved? Survey Results

Chapter 24. BRYAN JOHNSON

AI is the best thing since sliced bread. We should embrace it wholeheartedly and understand the secrets of unlocking the human brain by embracing AI. We can’t do it by ourselves.

ENTREPRENEUR FOUNDER, KERNEL & OS FUND

Bryan Johnson is the founder of Kernel, OS Fund, and Braintree. After the sale of Braintree to PayPal in 2013 for $800m, Johnson founded OS Fund in 2014 with $100m of those funds. His objective was to invest in entrepreneurs and companies that develop breakthrough discoveries in hard science to address our most pressing global problems. In 2016, Johnson founded Kernel with another $100m of his funds. Kernel is building brain-machine interfaces with the intention of providing humans with the option to radically enhance their cognition.

MARTIN FORD: Could you explain what Kernel is? How did it get started, and what is the long-term vision?

BRYAN JOHNSON: Most people start companies with a product in mind, and they build that given product. I started...