William Mills
The Next Challenge for Humanity
English edition
Is artificial intelligence a mere technology or a new form of life? This is the provocative question the author raises, in the era when AI dominates the scientific and social debate. Through a fascinating narrative, moving from a possible common ancestor, the book reveals how this new living being influences our relationship with the planet, with diversity and with other life forms.
From the lessons of Einstein and Oppenheimer, to the collective action of billions of people in building the learning base of the large linguistic models, via the revenge of Lamarck and statistics on the theories of language and logic. Mills also shows the emergence of an oligopolistic economic model and the chasing of governments with the slowness typical of bureaucracy, incomparable to the current evolutionary pace of AI.
The author also invites us to consider the ethical, social and ecological implications that mark the journey of this superhuman entity, right up to the prospect of human-AI co-evolution. The ideas set out in the book challenge us to rethink our beliefs about intelligence and life, in a groundbreaking work that offers us a fresh look at the future of humanity on Earth.
