AI 2041 - Ten Visions for Our Future - Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan Audiobook

Written by Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan
Read by Feodor Chin, Justin Chien, Soneela Nankani, Mirron Willis, Emily Woo Zeller, Siho Ellsmore, Fajer Al-Kaisi
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

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Duration: 18 hours, 4 minutes, 23 seconds
Chapters: 29

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Source Sample Rate: 44100 Hz
Source Channels: 2
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Lossless Encode: Yes
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How will artificial intelligence change our world within 20 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 21st 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 best-selling 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 10 gripping short stories, they introduce listeners 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 world

By gazing toward a not-so-distant horizon, AI 2041 offers urgent insights into our collective future - while reminding listeners that, ultimately, humankind remains the author of its destiny.