Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan: Artificial Intelligence 2041

Artificial Intelligence 2041. 10 visions of the future – in a provocative and unique book, Kai-Fu Lee, working with renowned sci-fi novelist Chen Qiufan, created a imagination of the planet of the future shaped by AI. This planet is known through 10 commentable stories that aid to answer the question of how artificial intelligence will change it in the next 20 years.- From the publisher.

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Chen Qiufan. Introduction
What to do to halt caring and embrace the future with imagination

In August 2019, during a visit to the London Barbican Centre, I accidentally visited the exhibition SI: more than humanwhich cleared my senses like a summertime shower and allowed to get free of most of my prejudices and misconceptions. The deceptively simple name of the vulnerability did not correspond to its actual diversity and complexity. Moving from the area to the room, I found fresh attractions related to the curators and the broad definition of SI. So there was a Golem, a mythical being from the judaic folklore, Doreamon, a well-known and beloved character of the nipponese anime, the first computer experiments by Charles Babbage, AlphaGo, a program created as a challenge to the fundamental abilities of the human mind, an analysis of prejudices hidden in SI technology revealed by Joy Buolamwini, exploring the functioning of facial designation systems and the interactive large-format digital art created by TeamLab, inspired by Sintoistic doctrine and aesthetics. This wonderful exhibition broadened my intellectual horizons and reminded me of the power of interdisciplinary thinking.

Roy Amara’s law states: “We tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the short word and underestimate it in the long term.”

Most of us think about SI in a alternatively narrow way. erstwhile asked about artificial intelligence, we'll replace the murderous robot with Terminator, imperfect algorithms that do not have the chance to match reason and will never, in any way, endanger the existence of man, as well as simple, insensitive method inventions, completely disconnected from the human way of perceiving the world, incapable to show emotion, direct institutions, or research another forms of life.

Truth – present in stories as different as the Chinese message, in which the protagonist Yan Shi is an inventor making up a humanoid, or a Greek story about Talos, immense made of bronze – is that a man-age long sought artificial intelligence and did so long before computer discipline existed and before the SI designation spread. From the past to the present day, the unstoppable power of the SI revolutionizes all aspect of our civilization and it is an irreversible process.

Science fictionIn which I specialize, it plays a alternatively delicate function in the survey of the interdependencies between man and machine. Novel Frankenstein of 1818, frequently indicated as the first modern book science fiction, asks inactive up-to-date questions: Do people, eating technology, have the right to make intelligent life that differs from all its existing forms? What will be the relation between the creator and his creation? The model of a mad scientist who affects the planet through his creation is derived from Mary Shelley's masterpiece written 2 100 years ago.

This 1 puts the SF as a scapegoat, blaming it for the narrow and frequently negative perception of the SI, but it is only part of the truth. Science fiction It can act as an early informing system, but speculative stories besides have a peculiar property of breaking time-space barriers, combining technologies with humanistic sciences, smearing the border between fiction and reality, and further prompting the reader to deep, empathic reflection.

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It is hard to meet specified advanced requirements. A real challenge for authors science fiction, in this and for me, is the writing of stories that uncover hidden truths about modern reality, and to this they show interplays of events even more hard to imagine.

For this reason, I was delighted erstwhile my old Google friend Kai-Fu Lee contacted me and offered to cooperate in writing the book SI 2041 – 1 of a kind, connecting science fiction and analysis of crucial ideas that are the driving force of technology. Kai-Fu delineates fresh paths as a global leader, is simply a hit forerunner in business-and-business investment and has no prejudices with a technological prophet. Kai-Fu's reasoning on career improvement in his field has had a large impact on the full generation of young people, and he is presently afraid with the future.

Kai-Fu understands in depth the issues related to breakthrough investigation and its application in the business world, so he can point out how SI can change humanity in the next 2 decades. His predictions concern different areas specified as medicine, education, entertainment, employment and finance. The ambitious thought of writing this book was in a sense the fruit of a magical coincidence. Years ago, I wrote about the thought of “realism science fictionIt’s okay. ” From my perspective, the SF is fascinating, as it not only creates space for escapists wishing to distance themselves from everyday life, to become superheroes and to research distant galaxies without restriction, but besides gives a large chance to critically look at reality from a certain perspective. Science fiction helps us to imagine the future and even enter it, change it and play an active function in shaping it.

In another words, if we want to make a future, we must first learn to imagine it.

My imagination began to form as I watched classical works as a kid science fictionsuch as Star Wars, Star Trek and 2001: Space odyssey. From the age of ten, I treated these paintings as my window to an endless future and unknown worlds. I believe that, before entering the writing work, the communicative must first of all be embedded in the past of its species, as well as in a broader social context. As a individual profoundly curious in fantasies science fiction, or even obsessed with them, I am impressed by the tremendous capacity of the SF, in which almost any subject and kind can be included.

Before I became a full-time writer, I worked in the technology industry. Many people presume that engineers and magicians of computer discipline are not peculiarly curious in literary fiction, as their brains are permanently programmed for science, not for fiction. For over a decade, I have been in method environments, and at that time I met many engineers and technologists who did not hide with a passion for speculative fiction. At times they manifested their enthusiasm, calling gathering rooms Enterprise or Neuromancer, but the inflammatorys were besides among prominent minds liable for projects specified as Google X or Hyperloop. Regardless of whether it is simply a modern submarine or a laser cannon, a mobile telephone or genetic manipulation, scientists are happy to admit their inspiration with beautiful literature. Imagination truly shapes the world.

From the very beginning, SI 2041 challenges the stereotype of dystopian communicative about SI – 1 in which the future is painted with black colours. We tried to make a imagination in which SI technology positively affects people and societies, although we did not ignore its flaws and associated nuances. We wanted to paint a future we wanted to live in and shape. We imagined the coming decades and the next happy generations, satisfied with the benefits of technological progress, engaged in work for the improvement of the planet and deepening the sense of its existence.

It was not always easy for us to imagine the future. We set ourselves the task of delving into the latest investigation on SI and then creating a scientific, logical and above all realistic imagination of artificial intelligence in 20 years. Together with our team, we spent many hours exploring late published investigation papers and talking to specialists, professionals and authorities in the field of SI. In addition, we took part in the SI workshops organised by the planet economical Forum and visited leading companies in the SI industry, so we were able to gather comprehensive cognition of the technological and philosophical foundations of its development.

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Another challenge was to imagine the future of man. We wanted to show how unconnected individuals with different cultural and professional competences would respond to SI shock. It is hard to draw subtle intellectual details based solely on logic and rationalization. In order to more effectively outline the emotional image of the protagonists of our stories, we ate past and drew inspiration from past events that changed the world. There was no uncertainty that we had to make empathy in readers, which would affect their imagination and facilitate their projection of different surviving conditions. Without this, we could not full reflect our feelings and forecasts. Kai-Fu's analyses are like a string connecting a floating imagination kite to a tangible spool of reality.

After months of intense work and multiple text revisions, we constructed 10 portals that will decision you through time and space to 2041. We hope that you will embark on this journey not only with curiosity and an absorbent mind, but besides with an open heart.

And 1 last note. As far as I'm concerned, the top value science fiction is not giving answers, but asking questions.

We hope that erstwhile you put that book down, your head will be awakened by quite a few fresh questions. Will SI aid people prevent another pandemic by suppressing it from the very beginning? How do we deal with future challenges in the labour market? How do we keep cultural diversity in a planet dominated by machines? How do you teach children to live in a society where people and machines coexist? We hope that thanks to the readers' questions we are going further towards a happier and more cheerful future.

Welcome to 2041!

Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan: Artificial Intelligence 2041, Media household Publishing 2022