AI-2041. Ten images of our future

Artificial intelligence will be the defining event of the XXI century. Within two decades, all aspects of everyday life will become unrecognizable. AI will lead to unprecedented wealth, the symbiosis of man and machine will lead to a revolution in medicine and education and create completely new forms of communication and entertainment. However, by freeing us from routine work, AI will also challenge the organizational principles of our economic and social order. AI will bring new risks in the form of autonomous weapons and ambiguous intelligent technologies. AI is at a tipping point, and people need to learn both its positive AI traits and the existential dangers it can bring. In this provocative, completely original work, Kai-Fu Li, former president of Google China and author of the book "The Superpowers of Artificial Intelligence," teams up with the famous novelist Chen Qufan to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten exciting stories, they will introduce readers to the possible new realities of 2041: In San Francisco, an industry of "job redistribution" appears, as AI with deep learning causes a massive displacement of jobs; In Tokyo, a music lover plunges into an exciting form of celebrity worship based on virtual and mixed reality; In Mumbai, a teenage girl riots when AI big data compression gets in the way of romance; In Seoul, virtual companions with perfect natural language processing (NLP) skills offer orphan twins new ways to communicate; In Munich, a rogue scientist uses quantum computing, computer vision and other artificial intelligence technologies in a revenge plot that threatens the entire world Looking at the not-so-distant horizon, AI 2041 offers an urgent insight into our collective future, reminding readers that, ultimately, humanity remains the author of its destiny.