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AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

✍ Scribed by Kai-Fu Lee; Chen Qiufan


Publisher
Crown
Year
2021
Tongue
en-US
Weight
560 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0593240715

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✦ Synopsis


How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years?

This inspired collaboration between a pioneering technologist and a visionary writer of science fiction offers bold and urgent insights.Yann LeCun, winner of the Turing Award; chief AI scientist, Facebook

Amazingly entertaining . . . Lee and Chen take us on an immersive trip through the future. . . . Eye-opening.Mark Cuban

AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand-new forms of communication and entertainment. In liberating us from routine work, however, AI will also challenge the organizing principles of our economic and social order.

Meanwhile, AI will bring new risks in the form of autonomous weapons and smart technology that inherits human bias. AI is at a tipping point, and people need to wake upboth to AIs radiant pathways and its existential perils for life as we know it.

In this provocative, utterly original work, Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and bestselling author of AI Superpowers, teams up with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping short stories, they introduce readers to an array of eye-opening 2041 settings, such as:

  • In San Francisco, the job reallocation industry emerges as deep learning AI causes widespread job displacement

  • In Tokyo, a music fan is swept up in an immersive form of celebrity worship based on virtual reality and mixed reality

  • In Mumbai, a teenage girl rebels when AIs crunching of big data gets in the way of romance In Seoul, virtual companions with perfected natural language processing (NLP) skills offer orphaned twins new ways to connect

  • In Munich, a rogue scientist draws on quantum computing, computer vision and other AI technologies in a revenge plot that imperils the world

By gazing toward a not-so-distant horizon, AI 2041 offers urgent insights into our collective futurewhile reminding readers that, ultimately, humankind remains the author of its destiny.

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