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Lee is clearly an expert on AI and that really shines through in this book. Sometimes when folks talk about technology like AI, they can get really caught up with a pie in the sky vision for the future that seems really out of reach. Lee has a good balance of explaining what’s possible and also grounding those possibilities in reality. His opinions are well thought-out, researched, and informed.
Knocking off one star for three reasons. First, there’s a clear bias towards China that comes through in several different parts of the book. This is understandable given the censorship we have seen in China and the fact that Lee currently resides in China but it does skew the book. Second, I felt like Lee overlooked many of the inequities and biases we see today and will see more of in the future with AI. As an example, he talks briefly about the legal system using AI for sentencing and insurance agencies using it to calculate rates but he does not go into the systematic biases that we’ve seen in these AI use cases. Third, the book takes a really weird turn in the last 50 or so pages when Lee talks in depth about his cancer diagnoses and how it changed his outlook on life. He then ties this into AI by talking about a future where people don’t have traditional careers but instead have careers focused around loving and caring for one another? Very odd given the focus of the rest of the book.
All in all, I recommend it. Highly informative and very interesting.
Knocking off one star for three reasons. First, there’s a clear bias towards China that comes through in several different parts of the book. This is understandable given the censorship we have seen in China and the fact that Lee currently resides in China but it does skew the book. Second, I felt like Lee overlooked many of the inequities and biases we see today and will see more of in the future with AI. As an example, he talks briefly about the legal system using AI for sentencing and insurance agencies using it to calculate rates but he does not go into the systematic biases that we’ve seen in these AI use cases. Third, the book takes a really weird turn in the last 50 or so pages when Lee talks in depth about his cancer diagnoses and how it changed his outlook on life. He then ties this into AI by talking about a future where people don’t have traditional careers but instead have careers focused around loving and caring for one another? Very odd given the focus of the rest of the book.
All in all, I recommend it. Highly informative and very interesting.