AI 2041
Ten Visions for Our Future
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4.2 • 40 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
How will AI change our world within twenty years? A pioneering technologist and acclaimed writer team up for a “dazzling” (The New York Times) look at the future that “brims with intriguing insights” (Financial Times). This edition includes a new foreword by Kai-Fu Lee.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial Times
Long before the advent of ChatGPT, Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan understood the enormous potential of artificial intelligence to transform our daily lives. But even as the world wakes up to the power of AI, many of us still fail to grasp the big picture. Chatbots and large language models are only the beginning.
In this “inspired collaboration” (The Wall Street Journal), Lee and Chen join forces to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping, globe-spanning short stories and accompanying commentary, their book introduces readers to an array of eye-opening settings and characters grappling with the new abundance and potential harms of AI technologies like deep learning, mixed reality, robotics, artificial general intelligence, and autonomous weapons.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This story collection blends author Chen Qiufan’s storytelling talents with the impressive real-life knowledge of artificial-intelligence expert Kai-Fu Lee. At the end of each of Qiufan’s 10 science fiction tales, Lee analyzes its central idea—AI health care, autonomous vehicles, or smart cities, for example—and discusses how these advances all come with the potential downsides that the stories illustrate. We loved “My Haunting Idol,” in which a shy Tokyo fan turned sleuth solves the murder of her favorite computer-generated pop singer. (Will we be able to tell what parts of our lives are real and what’s fantasy?) Another standout is “The Holy Driver,” a tense story about a Sri Lankan middle schooler who thinks he’s participating in a game and ends up in the midst of a terrorist attack. (Are we going to give up control of our own actions?) Lee’s insights are as thought-provoking as Qiufan’s stories are exciting. Together, they form an occasionally unsettling but unforgettable book.
