In Seoul, virtual companions with perfected natural language processing (NLP) skills offer orphaned twins new ways to connect.In Mumbai, a teenage girl rebels when AI’s crunching of big data gets in the way of romance.In Tokyo, a music fan is swept up in an immersive form of celebrity worship based on virtual reality and mixed reality.In San Francisco, the “job reallocation” industry emerges as deep learning AI causes widespread job displacement.In ten gripping short stories, they introduce readers to an array of eye-opening 2041 settings, such as: In this provocative, utterly original work, Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and bestselling 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. 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. Meanwhile, AI will bring new risks in the form of autonomous weapons and smart technology that inherits human bias. In liberating us from routine work, however, AI will also challenge the organizing principles of our economic and social order. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand-new forms of communication and entertainment. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. Eye-opening.”-Mark CubanĪI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Lee and Chen take us on an immersive trip through the future. “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.How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years?Ī WALL STREET JOURNAL AND FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

AI 2041 by Kai-Fu Lee