Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Best starting point for Tegmark's ideas about cosmology, mathematics, and the structure of reality.
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Max Tegmark is a Swedish-American physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research spans precision cosmology, quantum information, and the physics of biological and artificial intelligence. He is co-founder and president of the Future of Life Institute, an author of more than two hundred technical papers, and the author of popular-science books exploring the nature of reality and the implications of advanced artificial intelligence.
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Best starting point for Tegmark's work on artificial intelligence, consciousness, and the future of humanity.
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- Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
nonfiction · 2014
Why does mathematics explain the universe so well? From the big bang to the distant future via parallel worlds, Max Tegmark proposes a radical idea: that our reality is not only described by mathematics: it is mathematics. 'Daring,…
- Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
nonfiction · 2017
"How will artificial intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology--and there's nobody better qualified or…