Scary Smart Scary Smart

Scary Smart

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Publisher Description

This audiobook is masterfully read by the author, Mo Gawdat.

One of The Sunday Times' Business Books of the Year


Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a book for you. Because, believe it or not, you are the only one that can fix it.Mo Gawdat

'From a brilliant mind comes a terrifying prediction' – Tim Ash, bestselling author of Unleash Your Primal Brain


Artificial intelligence is smarter than humans. It can process information at lightning speed and remain focused on specific tasks without distraction. AI can see into the future, predicting outcomes and even use sensors to see around physical and virtual corners. So why does AI frequently get it so wrong?

The answer is us. Humans design the algorithms that define the way that AI works, and the processed information reflects an imperfect world. Does that mean we are doomed? In Scary Smart, Mo Gawdat, the internationally bestselling author of Solve for Happy, draws on his considerable expertise to answer this question and to show what we can all do now to teach ourselves and our machines how to live better. With more than thirty years' experience working at the cutting-edge of technology and his former role as chief business officer of Google [X], no one is better placed than Mo Gawdat to explain how the Artificial Intelligence of the future works.

By 2049 AI will be a billion times more intelligent than humans. Scary Smart explains how to fix the current trajectory now, to make sure that the AI of the future can preserve our species. This audiobook offers a blueprint, pointing the way to what we can do to safeguard ourselves, those we love and the planet itself.

GENRE
Nonfiction
NARRATOR
MG
Mo Gawdat
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
11:20
hr min
RELEASED
2021
September 30
PUBLISHER
Pan Macmillan
SIZE
365.7
MB

Customer Reviews

Mickey tc17 ,

Scary Smart.

Bought audio version and absolutely loved it!!

Zach D 1104197 ,

Too much lecturing on morality.

I can’t count the number of times the author said, “human greed.” The author comes off as very self-righteous throughout the book. Objective information tapers off quickly and evolves into redundant rants about human behavior. Go on YouTube and search for a few podcasts with the author and you get just as much information, without all of the morale lecture.

jakedeer ,

Best read

Love it

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