Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World

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But according to Gowat, we’re at the beginning of a similar, but WAY more consequential sigmoid with AI. There has never been a time when the risk of technology ruining our humanity has been bigger. This book is not for the engineers that write the code, the policy makers who claim they can regulate it or the experts that keep creating the buzz around it. They all know what I’m about to tell you. This is a book for you. Because, believe it or not, you are the only one that can fix it' Mo Gawdat Mainly if people have just one wish, they want to be happy. But we can't just tell computers that or they could dope us. Then again, the style of ‘Scary Smart’ is self-consciously informal because, as Gawdat tells us in the passage detailing the evolution of human intelligence, “spoken and written language in words and maths” is a “killer app.”

Bias also seems apparent. Numerous comments gave me the impression that capitalism and the West in general are troubled environments that will endlessly develop AI to our peril. That may be, but it seems to widely ignore countries with other economic systems, and questionable leaders, that are investing heavily in AI systems as well for a wide range of purposes. When we ask computers to communicate, at first they communicate like we tell them, but if they're intelligent enough, they'll start to say, ‘that's too slow.’” The answer is us. Humans design the algorithms that define the way that AI works, and the processed information reflects an imperfect world. Does that mean we are doomed? In Scary Smart, Mo Gawdat, the internationally bestselling author of Solve for Happy, draws on his considerable expertise to answer this question and to show what we can all do now to teach ourselves and our machines how to live better. With more than thirty years' experience working at the cutting-edge of technology and his former role as chief business officer of Google [X], no one is better placed than Mo Gawdat to explain how the Artificial Intelligence of the future works.

Or, it could be that this text was actually written (developed? Spawned?) by an AI bot which is why it was so sparsely referenced, simply circular and most annoyingly… Former Chief Business Officer for Google X and author of the books 'Solve for Happy' and 'Scary Smart' Mo Gawdat joins Piers Morgan Uncensored to talk about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence and how his work helped him cope with the death of his son.

Thats an approximation of the difference between our human abilities and the super-intelligence we’re about to give birth to and by default become completely dependent upon. Dr Camilla Pang, author of Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us About Life, Love and Relationships From a brilliant mind comes a terrifying prediction - our puny efforts will not be enough to control the rise of the machines... Mo takes us on a whirlwind exploration of the fast-approaching singularity, and offers a desperate last chance to have a say in the future of humanity. Read this book! I'm paraphrasing what the author has to tell us, as he knows a great deal more about AI than I do - having worked for Google and watched an army of gripping robots learning from one another how to lift children's toys. Direct quotes are in quotes.

AI is ingrained into our daily lives to such a degree that anyone not familiar with the topic would surely underestimate just how much. Personal assistants in your smartphone; surveillance and control devices in airports and streets; friendly chatbots in customer services; hiring algorithms that affect your professional future; recommender systems that decide the movies you watch and the products you buy; detection and recognition software that knows who you are and what you look like; and quasi-intelligent cars that will make driving obsolete in the not-so-distant future. It’s also worth remembering that his ‘be more discerning’ solution aimed at adults, is at least in line with a POSSIBLE reality of people his age who Remember a life without phones AND INTERNET. Asking the upcoming generation to have those traits is chocolate teapot time. Overall, the book sheds light on a perspective of AI that evades most people! It discusses why the AI intelligent is totally different than the old "dumb" computers that only did speed processing according to what we give it as a work map, in terms of instructions, to the totally new Ai that could learn on its own and navigate towards its goal or mission!

From a brilliant mind comes a terrifying prediction' – Tim Ash, bestselling author of Unleash Your Primal Brain There are only three things you need to know about artificial intelligence. First, it’s coming. Second, you can’t stop it. Third, it will be smarter than humans.His perspective on AI as a new form of life is indeed thought-provoking. He presents AI not just as algorithms and data but as an evolving entity, shaped by our inputs and interactions. This perspective challenges the traditional boundaries of what we define as "life" and pushes us to expand our understanding. It's hard not to be convinced after diving into that section, as it paints a vivid picture of AI's place in our distant future. Decide what makes you happy, and invest in your own happiness. Tell machines that we want others to be happy too. They are watching all the trends, not just the ones they are told their owners want. I’m in education and have an interest in the (unsubstantiated) promise of AI for democratising learning, so read bits and pieces of articles online and that cursory reading covered everything I came across here. I really was expecting something new, critical or timely. But maybe this was for the ground Zero reader. After reading Solve for Happy, I knew the writer was intelligent with a sense of compassion and practicality that makes a person truly important in this world, at least for me. A section that really resonated with me was his exploration of the potential impact of AI on our day-to-day lives. Gawdat does a solid job of extrapolating current trends and imagining the world a few decades down the line. It’s a vision that’s both exciting and cautionary, filled with opportunities and pitfalls.