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 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 worldBy 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.
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee is a groundbreaking exploration of the potential impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on society in the coming decades.
Lee, a world-renowned AI expert and former Google executive, argues that AI is poised to revolutionize every aspect of our lives, from the way we work and communicate to the way we govern ourselves and make war.
The book presents ten different visions of the future, each representing a different way in which AI could shape our world. These visions range from utopian scenarios, in which AI helps us solve some of the world's most pressing problems, to dystopian nightmares, in which AI becomes a threat to humanity.
Lee's book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the potential impacts of AI on our future. It is a thought-provoking and deeply researched work that will challenge your assumptions about the future of technology and its impact on society.
Here are some of the key takeaways from AI 2041:
- AI is poised to revolutionize every aspect of our lives, from the way we work and communicate to the way we govern ourselves and make war.
- The impact of AI will be both positive and negative, and it is up to us to shape the future of AI so that it benefits all of humanity.
- We need to start thinking now about the ethical and societal implications of AI, and we need to develop policies and regulations to govern the development and use of AI.
- The future of AI is uncertain, but it is clear that AI will play a major role in shaping our world in the decades to come.
If you are interested in learning more about the potential impacts of AI on our future, I highly recommend reading AI 2041 by Kai-Fu Lee.
