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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
This is an essential read. Grim look at our future.
informative
fast-paced
Find my full thoughts in my reading vlog: https://youtu.be/3FlAb5caONg
informative
medium-paced
This was a weird read - the author didn't really spend a lot of time exploring the potential of AI but seemed focused on 2 things
1) Scorekeeping - insisting on comparing China to the US using metaphors about competition to show exactly how superior China is, without any acknowledgement of labour, privacy or other legal differences, and
2) His utopian vision for economies to basically be powered by love.
All in all it feels like he used his AI experience as a cover for a social movement manifesto.
1) Scorekeeping - insisting on comparing China to the US using metaphors about competition to show exactly how superior China is, without any acknowledgement of labour, privacy or other legal differences, and
2) His utopian vision for economies to basically be powered by love.
All in all it feels like he used his AI experience as a cover for a social movement manifesto.
The most influential book I've read so far this year. AI will truly be the deciding factor on how our society will be like in 20-40 years and Kai Fu Lee's knowledgeable background in the Industry both in China and silicon valley makes it feel like no one but he can deliver this Important message.
Good and enjoyable summary of the power of AI and its expected impact
A seriously fascinating book about the most significant incoming societal shift. The author manages to explain the ins and outs of Artificial Intelligence, which was great to read in itself, but the last two chapters were a massive twist!
The author has worked with computers and AI his entire life and the first 3/4 of the book is about what AI means to the world as it is now (based on Industrial Age mentality that says someone’s worth is their job) and what it will become (mass unemployment). However, he explains through a deeply personal story that he regrets his machine-like focus on work and his neglect of family.
He says that AI offers the opportunity to reshape societal attitudes towards actual living! We can reshape the world to not focus on work and jobs which AI has usurped and can ensure that humanity replace the manual work with the spiritual elements of any job a robot cannot replicate.
I’m pleasantly surprised to have had my mind opened by a book I was enjoying but then took a turn in a direction I didn’t expect.
The author has worked with computers and AI his entire life and the first 3/4 of the book is about what AI means to the world as it is now (based on Industrial Age mentality that says someone’s worth is their job) and what it will become (mass unemployment). However, he explains through a deeply personal story that he regrets his machine-like focus on work and his neglect of family.
He says that AI offers the opportunity to reshape societal attitudes towards actual living! We can reshape the world to not focus on work and jobs which AI has usurped and can ensure that humanity replace the manual work with the spiritual elements of any job a robot cannot replicate.
I’m pleasantly surprised to have had my mind opened by a book I was enjoying but then took a turn in a direction I didn’t expect.
"Instead of seeking to outperform the human brain, I should have sought to understand the human heart"
Oh really?
It took a bout with cancer for Kai-Fu Lee, a lifelong voice and leader in artificial intelligence, to have a pseudo-Buddhist epiphany that we need to aim to have a society that is based on compassion. The emergence of AI is anything but that. He seems to be trapped in two worlds: a spiritual one where he is trying to reconnect with his humanity and the AI world which is dehumanizing us (although he won't admit this). His vision for the world is that wealth generated from AI can build a society that is more compassionate, loving, and human---which is so incredibly naive and delusional. Tech will make life more efficient, but a symbiosis with AI is a dehumanizing endeavour
The forecast is gloom: 40-50% of jobs will be displaced in 10-20 years; unemployment may rise to 20%; and we might live in a world where every few years people have to make lateral moves to learn new skills just to stay afloat as AI displaces blue and white collar jobs. Job security won't exist. Lee's optimistic view that AI can serve as an opportunity to nurture our humanistic values by adding more of a 'human touch' to jobs is delusional. There will be no need for human labour in any position that AI can fill.
The future of work for humans are jobs that aren't 'automatable'. Work that splits tasks with humans and AI is just a transition period as people get phased out once the technology advances. Lee believes that implementing a UBI would serve as a painkiller and sedative. He believes it's necessary, but somehow thinks that corporations and governments will band together to restructure society to benefit people. I have mixed feelings about UBI as I believe it's a misallocation of money and isn't a sophisticated solution. I think financial aid programs need to be set up for middle class and lower, similar with what is happening with COVID-19, to help people who have been displaced with work until their back on their feet. Welfare programs would continue for others who need it.
Bottom line: The future sounds bleak. Big corporation will shape the world and the gap between the wealthy will widen considerably with AI leaders becoming trillionaires. Kai-Fu Lee's vision of AI being an opportunity to help us get in touch with our humanity and understand ourselves better sounds a bit delusional. What is coming is social uproar and more inequality. Oh, and hopefully these tech guys and gals don't create the superintelligent AI that eventually wipes us out. Fun times ahead!
3/5
Oh really?
It took a bout with cancer for Kai-Fu Lee, a lifelong voice and leader in artificial intelligence, to have a pseudo-Buddhist epiphany that we need to aim to have a society that is based on compassion. The emergence of AI is anything but that. He seems to be trapped in two worlds: a spiritual one where he is trying to reconnect with his humanity and the AI world which is dehumanizing us (although he won't admit this). His vision for the world is that wealth generated from AI can build a society that is more compassionate, loving, and human---which is so incredibly naive and delusional. Tech will make life more efficient, but a symbiosis with AI is a dehumanizing endeavour
The forecast is gloom: 40-50% of jobs will be displaced in 10-20 years; unemployment may rise to 20%; and we might live in a world where every few years people have to make lateral moves to learn new skills just to stay afloat as AI displaces blue and white collar jobs. Job security won't exist. Lee's optimistic view that AI can serve as an opportunity to nurture our humanistic values by adding more of a 'human touch' to jobs is delusional. There will be no need for human labour in any position that AI can fill.
The future of work for humans are jobs that aren't 'automatable'. Work that splits tasks with humans and AI is just a transition period as people get phased out once the technology advances. Lee believes that implementing a UBI would serve as a painkiller and sedative. He believes it's necessary, but somehow thinks that corporations and governments will band together to restructure society to benefit people. I have mixed feelings about UBI as I believe it's a misallocation of money and isn't a sophisticated solution. I think financial aid programs need to be set up for middle class and lower, similar with what is happening with COVID-19, to help people who have been displaced with work until their back on their feet. Welfare programs would continue for others who need it.
Bottom line: The future sounds bleak. Big corporation will shape the world and the gap between the wealthy will widen considerably with AI leaders becoming trillionaires. Kai-Fu Lee's vision of AI being an opportunity to help us get in touch with our humanity and understand ourselves better sounds a bit delusional. What is coming is social uproar and more inequality. Oh, and hopefully these tech guys and gals don't create the superintelligent AI that eventually wipes us out. Fun times ahead!
3/5