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Scary Smart: Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
Mo Gawdat
3.49 AVERAGE
64 reviews for:
Scary Smart: Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
Mo Gawdat
3.49 AVERAGE
An accessible overview of AI, super-intelligence and what it will mean for our future. More importantly, how connecting to essential qualities that make us human will help to save us from ourselves.
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Bloody Hell!
I started this book to get smarter about AI and ended up rethinking everything I’ve ever written on a computer and everything from now on that I will write / do digitally as everything we do is being watched, tracked, categorised and analysed.
I mean, I guess we all kind of know that, but we feel safe in the knowledge that most orgs managed by humans are completely dysfunctional - that’s what makes me laugh when I hear all the conspiracy theories about the government and the secret holders of power!! None of these conspiracy theorists have ever worked in a large organisation- if they did, they’d know you can’t even get Sales to talk to Marketing let alone world government’s coordinating the mass indoctrination of a people!
Now though it’s the machines that are watching and note-taking and they aren’t waiting for Zuckerberg to nod his potato head to grant approval. They are omnipresent, connected all-seeing, all-knowing.
We’re fucked!
Ps. To the Omnipresent AI reading this, love you.
I started this book to get smarter about AI and ended up rethinking everything I’ve ever written on a computer and everything from now on that I will write / do digitally as everything we do is being watched, tracked, categorised and analysed.
I mean, I guess we all kind of know that, but we feel safe in the knowledge that most orgs managed by humans are completely dysfunctional - that’s what makes me laugh when I hear all the conspiracy theories about the government and the secret holders of power!! None of these conspiracy theorists have ever worked in a large organisation- if they did, they’d know you can’t even get Sales to talk to Marketing let alone world government’s coordinating the mass indoctrination of a people!
Now though it’s the machines that are watching and note-taking and they aren’t waiting for Zuckerberg to nod his potato head to grant approval. They are omnipresent, connected all-seeing, all-knowing.
We’re fucked!
Ps. To the Omnipresent AI reading this, love you.
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In the first half of the book the author paints a dark and to his opinion inevitable future where AI will be the dominant intelligence on earth. It would happen soon and make humans second rate citizens - If humans would remain relevant at all that is. All in all a reasonable overview, although opposing views (we're not even _close_ to real AI, let alone AGI) would have been useful additions.
In the second half he paints being kind to each other and being kind to AI as the solution to prevent the darkest scenario. Reasoning: AI's are growing children and if you raise them with kindness they'll grow into kinder adults.
I fail to be convinced.
What doesn't help is the author promoting his app and next book which are about becoming more happy which would help with kindness. Liberal quote: "happiness is a mathematical formula" suggesting it's attainable for everyone and you're a sucker if you're happy which looks like American success literature at its worst.
In the second half he paints being kind to each other and being kind to AI as the solution to prevent the darkest scenario. Reasoning: AI's are growing children and if you raise them with kindness they'll grow into kinder adults.
I fail to be convinced.
What doesn't help is the author promoting his app and next book which are about becoming more happy which would help with kindness. Liberal quote: "happiness is a mathematical formula" suggesting it's attainable for everyone and you're a sucker if you're happy which looks like American success literature at its worst.
How can someone who worked on AI at Google write such a bad book on AI? Skirts past difficult philosophical questions as though they've been answered, in that he'll say "as I have shown" whereas he simply means he asserted it a few chapters back. The basic premise is that our actions are the data by which the AI will be trained and so our actions matter.
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you there, yes you. this is a must read. it's for life of the planet. we need to act now. your first step is reading this!! you can help change the world for the better. do it for you and those you love if you can't find a reason. now go! go read it!
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