AI 2041 - Kirjakasa

hardcover, 480 pages

Published Sept. 13, 2021 by Currency.

ISBN:: 978-0-593-23829-5
ISFDB ID:: 2913292

(1 review)

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 up—both to AI’s 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 …

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 up—both to AI’s 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 AI’s 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 future—while reminding readers that, ultimately, humankind remains the author of its destiny.

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3 stars

The authors pair off on 10 topics likely to be relevant in the next 20 years - one writing fiction, one writing commentary. Short version - the commentary was good, the fiction was lacking.

The topics are interesting, and I like the idea of pairing sci-fi with non-fiction. [b:The Fountains of Paradise|149049|The Fountains of Paradise|Arthur C. Clarke|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1344265959l/149049.SY75.jpg|734510] this isn't. That said, the snippets were usually enough to demonstrate the topic. Here follows my other quibble.

AI, Artificial Intelligence, is not just Machine Learning. It also isn't quantum computing. Both of these things could eventually lead to what I think of as AI. Title aside, I thought the topics were quite good - autonomous vehicles, natural language processing, computer vision, virtual and augmented reality, and job displacement. Both the story and commentary in the chapter on quantum computing were well done. Overall rating, 3 stars - I liked the …

The authors pair off on 10 topics likely to be relevant in the next 20 years - one writing fiction, one writing commentary. Short version - the commentary was good, the fiction was lacking.

The topics are interesting, and I like the idea of pairing sci-fi with non-fiction. [b:The Fountains of Paradise|149049|The Fountains of Paradise|Arthur C. Clarke|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1344265959l/149049.SY75.jpg|734510] this isn't. That said, the snippets were usually enough to demonstrate the topic. Here follows my other quibble.

AI, Artificial Intelligence, is not just Machine Learning. It also isn't quantum computing. Both of these things could eventually lead to what I think of as AI. Title aside, I thought the topics were quite good - autonomous vehicles, natural language processing, computer vision, virtual and augmented reality, and job displacement. Both the story and commentary in the chapter on quantum computing were well done. Overall rating, 3 stars - I liked the book, but it didn't blow me away.

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