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Who is this book for?
- People who like science fiction and also want to understand AI technology
- Readers who want to know what work, education, and medicine will look like in twenty years
- Students who find AI technical books too dry and want to start with stories
- People concerned about the bias, privacy, and unemployment problems AI brings
Who is the author?
- Kai-Fu Lee, AI researcher and investor with about thirty years of AI experience, author of AI Superpowers
- Chen Qiufan, award-winning Chinese science fiction writer
- AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future was published in September 2021
Other BooksAI Superpowers (Kai-Fu Lee)；Waste Tide (Chen Qiufan)
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Sail to LofotenA Hybrid of Fiction and Popular Science
This book was co-written by AI expert Kai-Fu Lee and science fiction writer Chen Qiufan, in a distinctive form: each of its ten chapters has a short story by Chen Qiufan, set in places around the world; after each story, Lee explains the AI technologies used in the story and the social impact they may bring.
The two authors deliberately avoid writing about distant superintelligence, choosing instead technologies they believe have better than an eighty percent chance of being realized within twenty years, so that the stories rest on feasible science. Chen Qiufan says that if we want to create a future we want to live in, we must first learn to imagine it.
"The Golden Elephant": Mumbai's Insurance Algorithm
"Gods Behind the Masks": Deepfakes in Lagos
"Twin Sparrows": South Korea's AI Study Companions
"Contactless Love" and "My Haunting Idol"
"The Holy Driver": The Hidden Human Driver
"Quantum Genocide": Crisis in Iceland
"The Job Savior" and "Isle of Happiness"
"Dreaming of Plenitude": Post-Scarcity Australia
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