The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

詹姆斯·洛夫洛克：諾瓦新:未來的超智能時代

基本信息

Author：James Lovelock

Format：Paperback | 160 pages

Dimensions：129 x 198 x 8mm | 123g

Publication date：30 Jul 2020

Publisher：Penguin Books Ltd

Publication City/Country：London, United Kingdom

Language：English

ISBN10：0141990791

ISBN13：9780141990798

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蓋亞（Gaia）假説的創造者和我們這個時代最偉大的環境思想家提出了關於地球生命的未來的驚人新理論。詹姆斯·洛夫洛克（James Lovelock）認為，人類世時代（人類獲得行星規模技術的時代）已經過去了三個世紀。新時代諾瓦新已經開始。

現有的人工智能系統將產生新的生命。他們的思考速度將比我們快10,000倍，並將以我們現在視為植物的方式對待我們。科幻作家所想象的殘酷，暴力的機器接管將不會發生：這些超智能的生物將像我們一樣依賴於地球的健康。他們將需要蓋亞（Gaia）行星冷卻系統來抵禦不斷增加的太陽熱。蓋亞取決於有機生活。我們將成為該項目的合作伙伴。拉夫洛克認為，至關重要的是，地球的智慧能夠生存和繁榮。目前，我們是唯一能夠理解宇宙的生物，但是他推測，新戊烯可能是一個過程的開始，整個過程將使智力受制於整個宇宙。

The creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time has produced an astounding new theory about the future of life on Earth. James Lovelock argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after three centuries, coming to an end. A new age - the novacene - has already begun.

New beings will emerge from existing artificial intelligence systems. They will think 10,000 times faster than we do and will regard us as we now regard plants. The cruel, violent machine takeover imagined by sci-fi writers will not happen: these hyper-intelligent beings will be as dependent on the health of the planet as we are. They will need the planetary cooling system of Gaia to defend from the increasing heat of the sun. Gaia depends on organic life. We will be partners in this project. It is crucial, Lovelock argues, that the intelligence of Earth survives and prospers. We are at present the only beings capable of understanding the cosmos, but he speculates that the novacene could be the beginning of a process that will see intelligence suffusing the entire cosmos. At the age 100, Lovelock has produced the most compelling work of his life.

作者簡介

詹姆斯·洛夫洛克（James Lovelock）於1974年當選為皇家學會會員，是200多篇科學論文的作者，也是蓋亞假説（現為蓋亞理論）的創始人。 他關於該主題的許多著作包括《 蓋亞-地球上的生命的新外觀》（1979年）《 蓋亞的復仇》（2006年）《 蓋亞的消失面孔》（2009年）和《未來的艱難旅程》（2014年）。 2005年，《展望》雜誌將他評選為世界前100名公共知識分子之一，他還於2006年獲得了英國地質學會最高獎項的沃拉斯頓勛章。

James Lovelock, who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974, is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis (now Gaia Theory). His many books on the subject include Gaia- A New Look at Life on Earth (1979), The Revenge of Gaia (2006), The Vanishing Face of Gaia (2009) and A Rough Ride to the Future (2014). In 2003 he was made a Companion of Honour and in 2005 Prospect magazine named him one of the world's top 100 public intellectuals, and in 2006 he received the Wollaston Medal, the highest Award of the UK Geological Society.