When I started reading it, I had no idea it's a blend of fiction and nonfiction. Quantum computing and other leaps that both eliminate and increase riskīy gazing toward a not-so-distant horizon, AI 2041 offers powerful insights and compelling storytelling for everyone interested in our collective future. Immersive personalized entertainment to challenge our notion of celebrity AI sensors that creates a fully contactless society in a future pandemic

Genetic fortune-telling that predicts risk of disease or even IQ Ubiquitous AI that knows you better than you know yourself In ten gripping narratives that crisscross the globe, coupled with incisive analysis, Lee and Chen explore AI's challenges and its potential: In this provocative work that juxtaposes speculative storytelling and science, Lee, one of the world's leading AI experts, has teamed up with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to reveal how AI will trickle down into every aspect of our world by 2041. Humankind needs to wake up to AI, both its pathways and perils. Within two decades, aspects of daily life may be unrecognizable. AI has surpassed humans in speech and object recognition, even outperforming radiologists in diagnosing lung cancer.

In the past five years, AI has shown it can learn games like chess in mere hours-and beat humans every time. Though the term has been around for half a century, it is only now, Kai-Fu Lee argues, that AI is poised to upend our society, just as the arrival of technologies like electricity and smart phones did before it. In a groundbreaking blend of science and imagination, the former president of Google China and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an urgent question: How will artificial intelligence change our world over the next twenty years?ĪI will be the defining issue of the twenty-first century, but many people know little about it apart from visions of dystopian robots or flying cars.

AI 2041 by Kai-Fu Lee