Quotes from the book "Our Final Invention" - James Barrat

Here are some interesting quotes from the book, "Our Final Invention" - by James Barrat. The author constantly warns about the perils of AI.

The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology found that each year bad programming costs the US economy more than $ 60 billion in revenue.

An agent who sought only to satisfy the efficiency, self-preservation, and acquisition drives would act like an obsessive paranoid sociopath.

Per dollar spent, computers have increased in power by a billion times in the last thirty years.

Imagine a world where the difference between man and machine blurs, where the line between humanity and technology fades, and where the soul and the silicon chip unite.

When our machines overtook us, too complex and efficient for us to control, they did it so fast and so smoothly and so usefully, that only a fool or a prophet would have dared complain.

The cyber attacker has a huge advantage. Structurally it works out that the attacker only has to succeed once in a thousand attacks. The defender has to succeed every time. It's a mismatch.

Symantec claims China is responsible for 30% of all targeted malware attacks, and most of it 21.3% overall, comes from Ahaoxing, making that city the malicious software capital of the world.

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