very interesting topic could be done shorter

very interesting discussion about the future of Life from a physicist perspective
where is the first 4 chapters are very interesting The astrophysical perspectives later are a little bit far fetched and not so directly related to the immediate future

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interesting but not what I expected

I would have liked more facts instead of fiction, Tegmark in my opinion holds on to what he feels is human and how it get's presented to us by movies and media.. in my opinion AI is beyond human, the book should be about letting go of what we think is human and open up for the developements ahead..

Tegmark talks a lot about how AI can serve humans so we can stay like we are but in my opinion AI is so much more, AI gives us a better understandting of ourselves and by doing so is transcending humankind.. it will be part of our evolution and what we think to be human is, needs to be left behind to create something better..

we just need to let the whole topic evolve without fear, I suprised that a cosmologist like Tegmark wants to constantly steer our future, thats not what the universe is about, the universe is about natural evoluation, unbound to any believes..

I would recommend Homo Deus instead of this one if you want to get a glimpse of where we are heading..

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Thoughts on Life, Universe and Intelligence

This is a very thoughtful book about the last invention humanity will likely make: super intelligence. I like the way how Max outlines his definitions of intelligence or consciousness and then explores the topic of super intelligence from different perspectives. Inspiring and thought provoking with quite a bit of physics.

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Just off the charts.

Just off the charts. I cannot recommend it enough. Best book on the subject by far. Max Tegmark reached another level of greatness again.

Amazing book, a must read!

Inspiring, smart, interesting, mind blowing. Already my favorite book of 2023!

I cannot recommend it enough for learning about life, intellect, consciousness and ai.

Inspiring

Loved the content. At times, difficult to listen to. Highly recommend as AI background work.

A philosophical view to ai

I enjoyed hearing the book. It's easy to follow the authors ideas, not sure if giving the biggest companies control over one super ai will result in a future of happiness for all.

Too Hypothetical

I work and design Artifical Systems, thus I was really interested in this book. Unfortunatly I was pretty disappointed. The speaker sounds very boring and the book is more about what could happen in theory. The problem I have with this is, we know so little about the universe and technlogoy, that hypothetical, anything can happen. This book doesnt talk about what AI currently is able to do but instead creates a story where AI basically takes over the world. Even when he talks about the problems of AI, he doesnt talks too hypothetical. I personally cant recommend this book, since it reads to me as a SciFi. Book is about what can happen with AI in 200-1000 years. We don't even know how advanced AI will be in 10 years and humans have been wrong in assuming technlogoy development in the past many times already. Turin expected the first Computer to fool a human to be decades before it actually happened.

Prinzipiell sehr gut - aber manchmal sehr abstrakt

Das Audiobook bietet einen guten Einblick in AI und dem aktuellen Status dazu. Jedes Kapitel hat dabei verschiedene Informationen - manchmal mehr technisch, analytisch, abstrakt oder informierend über den aktuellen Wissenstand und die Forschungsweise dazu.
Der Größte Teil des Audiobooks ist gut aufgebaut und sehr packend (teilweise sehr informationsreiche für einen Newbie daher nicht zu empfehlen wenn gehört wird bei anstrengenden Stadtverkehr oder Intervallen beim Laufen). Teile vom Buch sind mir persönlich aber zu abgehoben und abstrakt. Diese Kapitel sind dann fast wie eine Fantasy Story geschrieben. Ist Geschmackssache, ich bevorzuge aber eher die Sichtweise eines realitätsnahen Zustands.

Great thoughts, sub-par presentation

Being a researcher myself, and at home in a field close to what Tegmark writes about, I do believe that he's very much aiming in the right direction. In part, his thoughts are outright breathtaking. What I didn't like are his lengthy paths to making a point; in particular those that describe, over various minutes, whom he met, how humbled he was, and how nice the other person acted. This is what I'd expect from an autobiography, not a philosophical, thought-provoking, and otherwise inspiring take on one pf the biggest challenges humanity will face. Also, the narrator takes his job a step too far when reading, e.g., URLs almost letter-by-letter.