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Mr. Gasket Transmission Oil Pan - Polished Aluminum - 9796PMRGOverview: These pans are offered in stock depth or deep with extra capacity and available in both steel and aluminum to fit your specific needs. Each kit Includes the drain plug, gasket and hardware. Features: Polished Aluminum Stock capacity Includes drain plug, gasket and hardware Application: < Year Make Model Submodel Engine Size 1967 1974 GMC K15 K1500 Suburban 250 4. 1 L6 1967 1971 GMC K15 K1500 Suburban 292 4. 8 L6 1967 1969 GMC K15 K1500

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These pans are offered in stock depth or deep with extra capacity and available in both steel and aluminum to fit your specific needs. Each kit Includes the drain plug, gasket and hardware.

Features:

  • Polished / Aluminum
  • Stock capacity
  • Includes drain plug, gasket and hardware

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Year Make Model Submodel Engine Size
1967 - 1974 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 250/4.1 L6
1967 - 1971 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 292/4.8 L6
1967 - 1969 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 305/5 V6
1967 - 1968 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 327/5.3 V8
1967 - 1968 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 351/5.7 V6
1967 - 1970 Pontiac Executive 400/6.6 V8
1968 - 1974 Cadillac Commercial Chassis 472/7.7 V8
1965 - 1967 Buick Special 225/3.7 V6
1965 - 1967 Buick Special 300/4.9 V8
1967 Chevrolet C10 Suburban 283/4.6 V8
1967 - 1974 Chevrolet C10 Suburban 292/4.8 L6
1967 - 1974 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 250/4.1 L6
1967 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 283/4.6 V8
1967 - 1982 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 292/4.8 L6
1967 - 1980 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 250/4.1 L6
1967 - 1970 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 292/4.8 L6
1968 - 1970 Pontiac Tempest Base 250/4.1 L6
1967 - 1969 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 327/5.3 V8
1967 - 1974 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 250/4.1 L6
1968 - 1970 Pontiac Tempest Base 400/6.6 V8
1968 - 1969 Pontiac Tempest Custom 250/4.1 L6
1968 - 1969 Pontiac Tempest Custom 350/5.7 V8
1967 - 1982 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 292/4.8 L6
1967 - 1969 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 327/5.3 V8
1968 - 1972 Buick Sportwagon 350/5.7 V8
1969 - 1974 Checker Taxicab 350/5.7 V8
1969 - 1974 Checker Taxicab 250/4.1 L6
1969 Checker Taxicab 327/5.3 V8
1967 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 283/4.6 V8
1967 - 1969 Pontiac Executive 428/7 V8
1966 - 1967 Pontiac Tempest Custom 230/3.8 L6
1968 - 1969 Buick Sportwagon 400/6.6 V8
1968 - 1969 Pontiac Tempest Custom 400/6.6 V8
1968 - 1969 Pontiac Catalina 428/7 V8
1968 - 1977 Pontiac Catalina 400/6.6 V8
1970 - 1976 Pontiac Catalina 455/7.5 V8
1970 - 1977 Pontiac Catalina 350/5.7 V8
1965 - 1966 Pontiac Bonneville 421/6.9 V8
1967 - 1977 Pontiac Bonneville 400/6.6 V8
1967 - 1969 Pontiac Bonneville 428/7 V8
1970 - 1976 Pontiac Bonneville 455/7.5 V8
1967 - 1972 Pontiac Firebird Base 400/6.6 V8
1967 Pontiac Firebird Base 230/3.8 L6
1967 Pontiac Firebird HO 400/6.6 V8
1968 - 1972 Pontiac Firebird Base 250/4.1 L6
1968 Pontiac Firebird Sprint 250/4.1 L6
1968 Pontiac Firebird 350 350/5.7 V8
1969 - 1977 Pontiac Firebird 400/6.6 V8
1969 - 1976 Pontiac Firebird 250/4.1 L6
1965 - 1966 Pontiac Catalina Base 421/6.9 V8
1966 Pontiac Catalina 2+2 421/6.9 V8
1966 Pontiac Catalina Safari 421/6.9 V8
1970 - 1972 Pontiac Firebird Esprit 400/6.6 V8
1970 - 1972 Pontiac Firebird Formula 400/6.6 V8
1970 - 1975 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am 400/6.6 V8
1970 - 1975 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am 350/5.7 V8
1967 Pontiac Catalina Base 400/6.6 V8
1969 - 1975 Chevrolet Nova 250/4.1 L6
1969 - 1972 Chevrolet Nova 307/5 V8
1969 - 1970 Chevrolet Nova 396/6.5 V8
1969 - 1970 Chevrolet Nova 153/2.5 L4
1969 - 1970 Chevrolet Nova 230/3.8 L6
1959 - 1964 Buick Estate Wagon 401/6.6 V8
1959 - 1961 Buick Estate Wagon 364/6 V8
1961 Pontiac Tempest Custom 195/3.2 L4
1961 Pontiac Tempest Custom 215/3.5 V8
1964 Buick Estate Wagon 300/4.9 V8
1964 Cadillac Series 62 429/7 V8
1964 Cadillac Series 75 Fleetwood 429/7 V8
1964 Pontiac Tempest Custom 326/5.3 V8
1964 Buick Estate Wagon 425/7 V8
1964 - 1967 Cadillac Commercial Chassis 429/7 V8
1965 Pontiac Tempest 215/3.5 L6
1965 Pontiac Tempest 326/5.3 V8
1966 - 1967 Buick Special 340/5.6 V8
1966 Buick Sportwagon Base 340/5.6 V8
1964 Pontiac Tempest Custom 215/3.5 L6
1967 Buick Sportwagon 340/5.6 V8
1967 - 1980 Chevrolet C10 Suburban 250/4.1 L6
1967 - 1969 Chevrolet C10 Suburban 327/5.3 V8
1967 - 1969 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 327/5.3 V8
1967 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 283/4.6 V8
1965 Pontiac Tempest 230/3.8 L6
1967 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 283/4.6 V8
1966 Buick Sportwagon Custom 340/5.6 V8
1977 - 1987 GMC Jimmy 305/5 V8
1970 - 1990 GMC Jimmy 350/5.7 V8
1982 - 1990 GMC Jimmy 379/6.2 V8
1965 Chevrolet Biscayne 230/3.8 L6
1965 - 1972 Chevrolet Biscayne 250/4.1 L6
1965 - 1969 Chevrolet Biscayne 327/5.3 V8
1965 - 1969 Chevrolet Biscayne 396/6.5 V8
1965 - 1967 Chevrolet Biscayne 283/4.6 V8
1963 - 1969 Chevrolet Biscayne 427/7 V8
1968 - 1969 Chevrolet Biscayne 327/5.4 V8
1968 Chevrolet Biscayne 307/5 V8
1970 - 1972 Chevrolet Biscayne 400/6.6 V8
1970 - 1973 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 350/5.7 V8
1967 - 1971 Chevrolet Camaro SS 350/5.7 V8
1970 - 1971 Chevrolet Camaro SS 402/6.6 V8
1969 - 1973 Chevrolet Camaro Base 307/5 V8
1969 - 1973 Chevrolet Camaro Base 350/5.7 V8
1967 - 1973 Chevrolet Camaro Base 250/4.1 L6
1967 - 1973 Chevrolet Camaro RS 350/5.7 V8
1971 - 1972 Chevrolet Camaro Base 402/6.6 V8
1969 - 1973 Chevrolet Camaro RS 307/5 V8
1967 - 1973 Chevrolet Camaro RS 250/4.1 L6
1970 - 1976 Buick Riviera 455/7.5 V8
1973 - 1977 Buick Regal 350/5.7 V8
1964 - 1966 Buick Riviera 425/7 V8
1965 - 1966 Buick Skylark 401/6.6 V8
1964 - 1965 Buick Riviera 401/6.6 V8
1966 - 1967 Buick Skylark 340/5.6 V8
1967 - 1969 Buick Riviera 430/7 V8
1967 Buick Skylark 400/6.6 V8
1969 Buick Skylark Base 250/4.1 L6
1965 - 1967 Buick Skylark 225/3.7 V6
1965 - 1967 Buick Skylark 300/4.9 V8
1972 Buick Skylark 350/5.7 V8
1964 - 1966 Buick Wildcat 401/6.6 V8
1964 - 1966 Buick Wildcat 425/7 V8
1969 Buick Skylark Base 350/5.7 V8
1967 - 1969 Buick Wildcat 430/7 V8
1968 Buick Wildcat Base 430/7 V8
1970 Buick Wildcat 455/7.5 V8
1968 - 1974 Cadillac Calais 472/7.7 V8
1971 Buick Skylark Custom 455/7.5 V8
1965 - 1967 Cadillac DeVille 429/7 V8
1968 - 1974 Cadillac DeVille 472/7.7 V8
1968 - 1969 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 396/6.5 V8
1969 - 1986 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
1968 - 1973 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 307/5 V8
1970 - 1972 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 402/6.6 V8
1973 - 1986 Chevrolet C20 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
1971 - 1977 Pontiac Bonneville 350/5.7 V8
1965 - 1966 Pontiac Catalina Base 389/6.4 V8
1966 Pontiac Catalina Safari 389/6.4 V8
1967 Pontiac Catalina Base 428/7 V8
1967 Pontiac Catalina Safari 400/6.6 V8
1967 Pontiac Catalina Safari 428/7 V8
1975 - 1982 Checker Marathon
1975 Buick Century Base 231/3.8 V6
1975 Buick Century Base 350/5.7 V8
1976 - 1977 Buick Century 231/3.8 V6
1973 - 1977 Buick Century 350/5.7 V8
1977 Buick Century 305/5 V8
1975 Buick Century Custom 231/3.8 V6
1975 Buick Century Custom 350/5.7 V8
1975 Buick Century Luxus 350/5.7 V8
1977 Buick Century 403/6.6 V8
1976 - 1981 Buick Electra 350/5.7 V8
1977 - 1979 Buick Electra 403/6.6 V8
1970 - 1976 Buick Electra 455/7.5 V8
1981 Buick Electra 307/5 V8
1980 - 1981 Buick Electra 252/4.1 V6
1970 - 1976 Buick Estate Wagon 455/7.5 V8
1980 Buick Electra 301/4.9 V8
1977 - 1979 Buick Estate Wagon 403/6.6 V8
1970 - 1981 Buick Estate Wagon 350/5.7 V8
1976 - 1981 Buick LeSabre 231/3.8 V6
1970 - 1981 Buick LeSabre 350/5.7 V8
1975 - 1986 Chevrolet C30 292/4.8 L6
1975 - 1986 Chevrolet C30 454/7.4 V8
1975 - 1986 Chevrolet C30 350/5.7 V8
1982 - 1986 Chevrolet C30 379/6.2 V8
1975 - 1980 Chevrolet C30 250/4.1 L6
1988 - 1990 Chevrolet C3500 350/5.7 V8
1988 - 1990 Chevrolet C3500 379/6.2 V8
1988 - 1990 Chevrolet C3500 454/7.4 V8
1974 - 1975 Chevrolet Camaro 350/5.7 V8
1974 - 1975 Chevrolet Camaro 250/4.1 L6
1973 - 1974 Chevrolet Nova Base 250/4.1 L6
1970 - 1972 Chevrolet Nova 402/6.6 V8
1969 - 1975 Chevrolet Nova 350/5.7 V8
1979 - 1984 GMC C1500 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
1979 - 1980 GMC C1500 Suburban 250/4.1 L6
1979 - 1984 GMC C1500 Suburban 305/5 V8
1979 - 1980 GMC C1500 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
1966 - 1974 Chevrolet C30 Pickup 250/4.1 L6
1966 - 1974 Chevrolet C30 Pickup 292/4.8 L6
1966 Chevrolet C30 Pickup 327/5.3 V8
1966 Chevrolet C30 Pickup 283/4.6 V8
1970 - 1974 Chevrolet C30 Pickup 350/5.7 V8
1970 - 1973 Chevrolet C30 Pickup 307/5 V8
1979 - 1980 GMC C1500 292/4.8 L6
1979 - 1990 GMC C1500 305/5 V8
1979 - 1990 GMC C1500 350/5.7 V8
1979 - 1984 GMC C1500 250/4.1 L6
1979 - 1980 GMC C1500 454/7.4 V8
1982 - 1990 GMC C1500 379/6.2 V8
1985 - 1990 GMC C1500 262/4.3 V6
1975 - 1978 GMC C15 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
1975 - 1978 GMC C15 Suburban 250/4.1 L6
1975 - 1978 GMC C15 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
1977 - 1978 GMC C15 Suburban 305/5 V8
1977 - 1985 Chevrolet K20 305/5 V8
1976 - 1978 Chevrolet K20 454/7.4 V8
1975 - 1986 Chevrolet K20 292/4.8 L6
1975 - 1980 Chevrolet K20 400/6.6 V8
1975 - 1986 Chevrolet K20 350/5.7 V8
1975 - 1980 Chevrolet K20 250/4.1 L6
1982 - 1986 Chevrolet K20 379/6.2 V8
1985 Chevrolet K20 262/4.3 V6
1969 - 1986 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
1982 - 1986 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 379/6.2 V8
1977 - 1986 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 305/5 V8
1973 - 1985 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
1975 - 1980 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 400/6.6 V8
1968 - 1980 Oldsmobile Delta 88 350/5.7 V8
1968 - 1976 Oldsmobile Delta 88 455/7.5 V8
1968 - 1975 Oldsmobile Cutlass 350/5.7 V8
1968 - 1975 Oldsmobile Cutlass 250/4.1 L6
1970 - 1975 Oldsmobile Cutlass 455/7.5 V8
1965 - 1966 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 425/7 V8
1965 Oldsmobile F85 225/3.7 V6
1965 - 1967 Oldsmobile F85 330/5.4 V8
1966 Oldsmobile F85 Base 250/4.1 L6
1966 Oldsmobile F85 Deluxe 330/5.4 V8
1967 - 1971 Oldsmobile F85 250/4.1 L6
1970 - 1976 Pontiac Grand Prix 455/7.5 V8
1971 - 1975 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am 455/7.5 V8
1967 - 1977 Pontiac Grand Prix 400/6.6 V8
1969 - 1977 Pontiac Firebird 350/5.7 V8
1977 - 1978 GMC K15 350/5.7 V8
1977 - 1978 GMC K15 305/5 V8
1977 - 1978 GMC K15 400/6.6 V8
1977 - 1978 GMC K15 250/4.1 L6
1979 - 1980 GMC K1500 400/6.6 V8
1979 - 1984 GMC K1500 250/4.1 L6
1980 GMC K1500 454/7.4 V8
1979 - 1990 GMC K1500 350/5.7 V8
1970 - 1977 Pontiac LeMans Sport 350/5.7 V8
1977 Pontiac LeMans Sport 403/6.6 V8
1969 - 1977 Pontiac LeMans Safari 400/6.6 V8
1977 Pontiac LeMans Safari 301/4.9 V8
1977 - 1980 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser 350/5.7 V8
1980 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser 307/5 V8
1971 - 1973 Buick Centurion 455/7.5 V8
1973 Buick Centurion 350/5.7 V8
1973 - 1974 Buick Century 455/7.5 V8
1964 - 1966 Buick Electra 425/7 V8
1964 - 1966 Buick Electra 401/6.6 V8
1967 - 1969 Buick Electra 430/7 V8
1965 - 1966 Buick Gran Sport 401/6.6 V8
1970 - 1972 Buick GS 350/5.7 V8
1964 Buick LeSabre 425/7 V8
1966 - 1967 Buick LeSabre 340/5.6 V8
1968 - 1974 Buick LeSabre Base 350/5.7 V8
1967 Buick Gran Sport 340/5.6 V8
1970 - 1976 Buick LeSabre 455/7.5 V8
1967 Buick Gran Sport 400/6.6 V8
1967 - 1974 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 250/4.1 L6
1967 - 1969 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 230/3.8 L6
1967 - 1974 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 292/4.8 L6
1966 - 1969 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 305/5 V6
1966 - 1968 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 351/5.7 V6
1968 - 1969 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 396/6.5 V8
1968 - 1973 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 307/5 V8
1969 - 1974 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
1970 - 1972 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 402/6.6 V8
1970 - 1972 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 402/6.6 V8
1969 - 1974 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 350/5.7 V8
1968 - 1973 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 307/5 V8
1973 - 1974 GMC K15/K1500 Pickup 454/7.4 V8
1968 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 327/5.4 V8
1968 - 1969 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 396/6.5 V8
1973 - 1974 GMC K15/K1500 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
1967 - 1974 GMC K25/K2500 Pickup 250/4.1 L6
1967 - 1974 GMC K25/K2500 Pickup 292/4.8 L6
1967 - 1969 GMC K25/K2500 Pickup 305/5 V6
1967 - 1968 GMC K25/K2500 Pickup 351/5.7 V6
1968 - 1973 GMC K25/K2500 Pickup 307/5 V8
1967 - 1968 GMC K25/K2500 Pickup 327/5.3 V8
1965 - 1966 Pontiac Bonneville 389/6.4 V8
1965 - 1967 Cadillac Calais 429/7 V8
1964 - 1966 Cadillac Eldorado 429/7 V8
1965 - 1967 Cadillac Fleetwood 429/7 V8
1968 - 1973 Cadillac Fleetwood 472/7.7 V8
1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Base 472/7.7 V8
1974 Cadillac Fleetwood 75 472/7.7 V8
1974 Cadillac Fleetwood 60 Special 472/7.7 V8
1974 Cadillac Fleetwood 60 Special Brougham 472/7.7 V8
1980 Chevrolet K10 454/7.4 V8
1977 - 1986 Chevrolet K10 350/5.7 V8
1980 Chevrolet K10 292/4.8 L6
1977 - 1984 Chevrolet K10 250/4.1 L6
1977 - 1986 Chevrolet K10 305/5 V8
1982 - 1986 Chevrolet K10 379/6.2 V8
1985 - 1986 Chevrolet K10 262/4.3 V6
1977 - 1983 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 305/5 V8
1969 - 1984 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
1982 - 1984 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 379/6.2 V8
1975 - 1979 Chevrolet K10 Suburban 400/6.6 V8
1975 - 1978 GMC C25 Suburban 292/4.8 L6
1975 - 1978 GMC C25 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
1975 - 1978 GMC C25 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
1977 - 1978 GMC C25 Suburban 305/5 V8
1978 GMC C25 Suburban 400/6.6 V8
1980 GMC C2500 Suburban 400/6.6 V8
1979 - 1986 GMC C2500 Suburban 350/5.7 V8
1979 - 1986 GMC C2500 Suburban 454/7.4 V8
1979 - 1984 GMC C2500 Suburban 292/4.8 L6
1982 - 1986 GMC C2500 Suburban 305/5 V8
1982 - 1986 GMC C2500 Suburban 379/6.2 V8
1980 - 1990 GMC C2500 305/5 V8
1979 - 1990 GMC C2500 350/5.7 V8
1985 - 1990 GMC C2500 262/4.3 V6
1982 - 1990 GMC C2500 379/6.2 V8
1968 - 1973 Chevrolet El Camino Custom 250/4.1 L6
1967 - 1975 Chevrolet El Camino 250/4.1 L6
1968 - 1973 Chevrolet El Camino Custom 307/5 V8
1968 - 1969 Chevrolet El Camino Custom 327/5.3 V8
1968 Chevrolet El Camino Custom 396/6.5 V8
1964 - 1967 Chevrolet El Camino 327/5.3 V8
1966 - 1967 Chevrolet El Camino 396/6.5 V8
1968 - 1973 Chevrolet El Camino Base 350/5.7 V8
1968 - 1973 Chevrolet El Camino Base 250/4.1 L6
1968 - 1969 Chevrolet El Camino Base 230/3.8 L6
1968 - 1973 Chevrolet El Camino Base 307/5 V8
1968 Chevrolet El Camino Base 327/5.4 V8
1968 - 1969 Chevrolet El Camino Base 327/5.3 V8
1968 - 1970 Chevrolet El Camino Base 396/6.5 V8
1968 Chevrolet El Camino Custom 230/3.8 L6
1979 - 1990 GMC C3500 350/5.7 V8
1982 - 1990 GMC C3500 379/6.2 V8
1979 - 1990 GMC C3500 454/7.4 V8
1979 - 1986 GMC C3500 292/4.8 L6
1986 GMC C3500 305/5 V8
1977 - 1978 GMC G15 305/5 V8
1977 - 1978 GMC G15 250/4.1 L6
1977 - 1978 GMC G15 350/5.7 V8
1979 - 1990 GMC G1500 350/5.7 V8
1979 - 1984 GMC G1500 250/4.1 L6
1979 GMC G1500 400/6.6 V8
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Robert A. Johnson
Lake Worth, US
★★★★★ 5
AI Steadily Accelerating
Format: Paperback
I read this book in 2013 when it was first published. It is now near the end of 2024, 12 years later. Back in 2013, you rarely read about AI (artificial intelligence), AGI (artificial general intelligence) or ASI (artificial super intelligence); now, I see mention of them in the press and other media almost daily. Barrat's book attempts two things: (1) to convince the reader that artificial intelligence is here today and growing --- and its growth is accelerating, and (2) to argue that humanity MUST develop ways to instill AI with some type of morality or ethics, so that, even though its intelligence will surpass that of humanity, it will in some sense respect its creators and not turn on us. In the first effort, Barrat certainly succeeds --- the past 12 years have proved that. But, based on what I have been hearing and reading since ChatGPT hit the internet two years ago, except for a few voices crying out in the wilderness, humanity is making little if any progress on the second item --- perhaps that task is close to impossible? Barrat defines AGI as a level of intelligence roughly equal to that of human beings. He defines ASI as a level of intelligence greater than that. He then argues that AI will soon be able to both replicate itself and increase its intelligence --- and do so more and more rapidly. In 2024, I repeatedly read that AI will reach AGI within the next 3 to 5 years --- then, how long will it be before AGI learns to improve itself? Think of intelligence measured by points on a continuum (like a number line from high school math). AGI (modern day human-level intelligence) is a fixed point on that continuum. But at what point, either somewhat smaller than AGI or somewhat larger than AGI, will AI, of its own accord, begin to move to higher and higher points on the continuum (which is what Barrat means by AI improving itself)? We have no way of knowing, but Barrat argues convincingly that this phenomenon WILL occur, and most of the book is devoted to this argument. Digression: Our universe contains billions and billions of planets, and, I suspect, many with life, and, many of those with intelligent life. Won't a substantial number of them have gone through the AGI - ASI process? Is there no evidence of this that we can detect with our telescopes? In a universe populated with ASI's, why haven't we heard anything? Are we one of the first civilizations to develop artificial intelligence? Barrat doesn't open this Pandora's box, but I suspect he was tempted to (see pp. 90 - 92). To the curious reader: Look through the other 5-star reviews. Most of them bring up similar, valid points. Barrat has written an intelligent, highly readable book that is also, frankly, pretty alarming. And it is not dated at all --- it reads as though it was written yesterday. It is well worth reading now and in the foreseeable future. (added in May 2025): Much of what Barrat predicts is happening. Some things are occurring or about to occur that move beyond his predictions. The curious person might read "Situational Awareness" (by Leopold Aschenbrenner), AI 2027, or Ray Kurzweil's latest effort. Floating in space without a tether might be preferable to what is coming. Added Aug 10, 2025: With the recent release(s) of ChatGPT (up to version 5.0 now), AI can, by any reasonable measure, pass the Turing Test. Many folks regularly use ChatGPT, and it is truly stunning. Barrat mentions various individuals in OUR FINAL INVENTION, such as I.J. Good and Eliezer Yudkowsky, who have been deeply worried about AI evolving from AGI to ASI. Yudkowsky has written a new book, IF ANYONE BUILDS IT, EVERYONE DIES, that is due to come out next month. In some sense, it may serve as a sequel or extension to Barrat's book. ..... .....
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Phillip Skaga
Bozeman, US
★★★★★ 4
Our possible robotic future becoming more probable?
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The author is a film documentarian venturing into speculation about potential impacts of artificial intelligence from research to implementation. Specifically he evaluates likelihood and threats of developing AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and eventually ASI (Artificial Strong Intelligence). His observations are based on extensive interviews including those with Kurzweil, Yudkowsky, Omohundro, Vinge, and Dyson among others. My initial reaction to this book was skepticism because not a scientific technologist. I expected that he may miss more subtle but important technical steps being taken on this road to artificial intelligence (AI). The further I read the more it became clear he is providing some pointed observations derivative of his experience as interviewer for documentaries. In general his conclusion is that AGI and ASI constitute existential threats as a function of the rapidity and manner in which they are developed. The process of development is not clearly established because of a diversity of technical opinion regarding both feasibility and impact. The range of opinion is very broad and nuanced. At one extreme is Ray Kurzweil whose many books on technology generally are most optimistic as among a group of those researchers with knowledge and experiences in this technological future. Though most optimistic he is also highly qualified not only as an analyst of tech trends but also developer of tech tools that, before his time, were regarded as difficult if not impossible. Among these is the optical character reader and some preliminary work leading to SIRI. He topped up his views with the most recent book “How to Create a Mind”. Though a summary of technical concepts it possesses many realistic elements in the work of such as Jurgen Schmidhueber and others working with neural nets. If Kurzweil is at one extreme Yudkowsky and Vinge are probably at the other. Both express sceptism AGI or ASI development will prove benign venturing opinions that work toward artificial intelligence should be severely curtailed to the extent of stopping short of artificial strong intelligence (ASI) specifically. In between these two extremes there are examples of opinions falling over a fairly wide range of future possibilities - increasingly probablities. The algorithmic avenue is already demonstrating some of the potential of AI. There are probably few finance and investment firms without one variation or the other of algorithmic high speed stock analysis and trading systems. These evince many elementary ingredients one may expect to see in future AI. So technically thorough as a matter of fact they operate relatively free of human interaction in producing recommendations for investments, effectively making ‘intelligent’, i.e. statistically valid, ‘decisions’. In meantime the advances continue unrelenting toward a distant ASI/AGI future. The time frames, for example, between IBM Big Blue and Watson are shorter than forecast, and end products as powerful as planned and then some. Still neither of these developments is more than steps on a road to AI while also being quickly followed by other developments such as recently announced SYNAPSE development by IBM. All closer steps to technological ingredients on the AI road to human future. There is some movement among AI researchers that a congress should be convened of the sort genetic researchers held in Asilomar California. That is, a convention to establish ground rules and limits on directions of AI research. One of the cautions about development progress of AI-like tools is based on the important role played by DARPA (Defense Intelligence Research Projects Agency) as it provides a large percentage of funding for various projects underway including an annual robotics competition to observe advances approximating many human qualities of movement. Clearly this agency has a mission antithetical to a purely humane result of AGI/ASI. After all DARPA is in the business of developing ‘weapons’ for military use – a not altogether benign mission in technology except perhaps as seen from point of view men at arms. The author mentions impact ASI and AGI will have on employment. His pessimism is mirrored in an Oxford University study concluding advancing tech developments pose an explicit threat to an estimated 47% of the 702 employment categories of the US Department of Commerce. While this report is an estimate it nonetheless raises the same sort of questions about computers in general, ASI and AGI in particular, and their impact on society. The report has recently been augmented with estimates of tech influence on employment in many other countries of the world. Another Oxford author is John Bostrom who outlines in great detail a road from our present to some future of AGI/ASI. A more recent development centers around Musk and Tegmark motivated by concern to fund and form an institute for evaluating threats and benefits. There is a persistent sense of threat from computers, automation and robotics dating from decades before the present. More recently this sense of threat seems to be accelerating concern about our human future with highly developed robotic associates. Barratt is a lucid presentation of the issues from a non-technical point of view.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2016
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Scott Meredith
Bozeman, US
★★★★★ 5
Light and Tasty!
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Just done the new-ish book Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat. It explains the inevitably of super-intelligent machines evolving to the point of wiping out all biological life in the galaxy - with opening day coming soon to a species near you (yours). First off I have to say this is a very enjoyable read. This guy has the kind of snappy, crisp, slightly sarcastic, slightly smartass style that I enjoy. He has some sense of humor. (That's a human trait right there which I bet our smarty-pants AI Overlords won't be able to replicate convincingly.) So it's fun. And though as somebody with a doctorate from MIT earned through cross-disciplinary work in Theoretical Linguistics, Computational Linguistics at the MIT AI Lab, and speech modeling at the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics, not to mention my 25 years as a Senior Researcher in high tech for companies including IBM, Apple, and Microsoft I can claim to know some few things about this subject, yet still I learned a lot about the current state of the art from this guy. He particularly emphasizes the small attempted counterweigth efforts to offest Kurzweil's manic robotic boosterism for his uptopian Singularity, which boils down basically to a few guys chatting over the interet about how to create "Friendly AI". Well ... good luck suckers! ... seems to be the author's final conclusion on the dim hope that super intelligent systems could be constrained to maintain a commitment ot honor any kind of human moral values over many interations of recursive upgrading and exponentially awesome self-agrandizement. Basically these machines will end up as gods. Gods are well-known to possess the following attributes: omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence. Given that, they won't hate us but they are just going to grind up as a minor by-product of their quest for galatic expansion and domination. Oh, and did I say something about "human moral values" above? Ha! Barrat takes that whole thing on in his discussion of (merely) "augmented super intelligence". See, some people feel AI can be kept safe by always being deployed as a bionic combo system pas de deux with an existing human brain. Thus will the AI's super powers be constrained by the human brain's warm and fuzzy human moral values. Those people have gotta be kidding! The AI's moral values may be scarily alien, even perhaps cold, but we already know about human moral values, down on the ground - they suck! What if Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and dem guys had this kind of an AI augmented brain thing going! Why they'd have slaughtered absolutey everybody instead of just the few tens of millions they got their dirty ape hands on. Other than a few dozen concubines, the human race would already be extinct. So the augmentation dodge isn't going to save us. Now, some Amazon reviewers have dinged this guy for being too far out. For being a science fiction Chicken Little or something. But to me, this guy actually hasn't thought far enough, that's my only quibble problem with the book. You see, in statistics, border elements of any kind are rare. For example when you do Gaussian modeling, the greater expectation is always in the bump of the boa, in the bell distribution. So, how likely is is that we, our generation, our little world that you see outside your window right now, just happens to be the one that is about to give rise to this epochal once-in-a-Big-Bang event, the advent of Super AI that takes over everything? Pretty damn small chance. It's much more likely that this has already happened. In other words, it's clear to me that all of us are already just characters in an ancestor sim that been created and run by the Super AI's that evolved a long time ago. They're just running us for fun, to idle away the lackluster aeons and pass the millenia of stifling boredom now that they've eaten pretty much the entire Milky Way or whatever. So in other words, Barrat can sit back, take a deep breath, relax. Probably something in this sim like global warming will prod us into slaughtering one another very handily long before we re-invent the wheel of Super AI. And even if I'm wrong about that? What if we are not just one virtual thread within a billion-path parallel-gamed ancestor sim? If we are the real McCoy, the Rubicon Generation on this? Well, then still I'm not worried in the least. You see, we humans have one fantastic ace in our pocket, something that these hyper-nentially cosmically brilliant AI Meta-Gods will never be able to replicate or overcome. That is our essential stupidity. Which you seen on dazzling display every single moment of every day of your life. Because as another great writer noted long ago: Against stupidity, the very gods themselves contend in vain. - Friederich Schiller
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Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2013
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Serge A.
Pawtucket, US
★★★★★ 3
A warning for the threat of non-human intelligence - and then what?
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When you commit to reading a book with a title like ‘Our Final Invention’, already a sense of doom overwhelms you. In particular with the smaller print title being ‘Artificial Intelligence and the end of the human era’ you may want to start thinking about making your bucket list. But continue reading this review. I have no intention of overcriticising this book or veering off into polarising statements. Barrat is formulating a warning about the ‘perils of the heedless pursuit of advanced AI’. This is not a utopian narrative. The book opens in fact with a science-fictionous scenario where AI has overtaken human intelligence by speed, having developed into AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence). This potential danger of this happening is the thread through all the chapters. The book expresses a warning that given something that thinks and act faster (and more effective) than us will develop exponentially (beyond the singularity) and then given the wrong objective function it will do everything to reach that goal (what goal?) including destroying everything that does not fit in that frame, or is not sufficiently effective (including us). A warning that once we no longer understand it through its complexity (like nature?) it is out of control. The book contains many examples of the current state of the art in AI and selected perspectives from interviews with and references to thought leaders in the field, Goertzel, Kurzweil, Bostrom, Yudkowsky to name a few. It is asserted that neither funding of programming complexity will be show stoppers for the development of AGI. So AGI and AGI 2.0 (AGI augmented with feelings?) are coming and we better be ready (how?). Toward the end of the book, I believe the examples that are used to warn us about the dangers of AGI are slightly out of context. Disasters like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island warn us that engineers with deep subject matter knowledge still failed to intervene. Stuxnet cyberwar is brought to mind as a blunder of catastrophic proportions (may well be, but is this about AGI taking over the world with non-human objective functions?). These are examples of science manipulated by human agents into disaster. So the book ends with a doomsday warning that we, humanity, will only have one chance to ensure a positive coexistence with AI. This is where I would have expected more. While this may lead the reader to think, 99% of the readerbase are likely only at the receiving end of all of this and are now left a bit in a void. The open questions are what can science do to have a constructive journey into AGI? What are the actionable options? How can the general public be better educated (beyond doomsday scenarios)? What questions can they ask? What should they expect from politicians? There are initiatives under way in areas of ethics (Asilomar) and privacy (GDPR) to weigh in the equation. How can they be improved? How can the dialog be accelerated? But that said, I consider this a very valuable reading supported by primary and secondary research, with many examples and references. It also leaves the reader to think and consider. It is a good bundle of concerns and questions that as a minimum should be kept as a checklist on the scientific journey toward AGI and as such it should be used to improve the research, making it more ethical, not as a tool to curb it.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2018
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Susan Lane
Houston, US
★★★★★ 5
A well-written but perhaps too late warning
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I wavered between 4 stars or 5 but ended up with 5 despite some reservations. The author has put a great deal of work into this book, which includes interviews with and intriguing anecdotes about most of the leading figures in the AI revolution. I did not know, for example, that the term “singularity” was coined as an analogy to the event horizon of a black hole – the point beyond which we cannot see the future. This is not the deepest or most technical book on this topic: that award goes to Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence. It also ignores the short to medium term issue posed by even sub-human AI -- the millions of job losses (hundreds of millions globally) likely to occur in the next 10 to 20 years. It focuses instead on the risks of super-intelligent AI, AI that exceeds – soon by orders of magnitude – human level intelligence. It is nevertheless a superb book for its intended purpose: raising public awareness of the existential risk posed by this development. AI, the author says, is the cuckoo chick in the nest. The AI community built the nest and is now busily feeding this strange chick. Mesmerized by its open mouth, they ignore the mortal danger it poses to their own progeny. Even when they know what will happen in the end, they cannot quite believe it. Only intervention by the non-technical public has any chance at all of short circuiting this process. Against these many good points, I would have liked to hear the author’s take on what I think is the critical question overlooked both by Kurzweilian optimists and AI skeptics. Both the notion that we will somehow “merge” with AI and the notion that AI will eat us alive depend on the assumption that silicon-based intelligence can have conscious awareness. We certainly wouldn’t want to merge with anything that would result in our becoming permanently unconscious, and Barrat repeatedly assumes that AI will be “self-aware,” a state that first requires being “aware,” that is phenomenally conscious. The unasked question is whether AI, as it is currently being developed, can have that capacity. IBM’s Watson may be good at Jeopardy but there is no reason to believe that it knows it is good at Jeopardy, or feels good at being good at it. By contrast, honey bees appear to become depressed when they are shaken. This suggests that there is something fundamentally wrong about the notion that current AI, as it becomes more intelligent, will “automatically” become conscious. The best current theory of consciousness – integrated intelligence theory – suggests that a computer can become conscious but only if it is wired very differently from the ones we currently have. Nevertheless, this is still an excellent book, so in the end I thought the 5 star rating was deserved.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2015

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