Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World

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But according to Gowat, we’re at the beginning of a similar, but WAY more consequential sigmoid with AI.

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One of the shining aspects of the book is the focus on ethics. In the vast AI literature, ethics is a topic that often feels either neglected or glossed over. Gawdat, however, prioritizes it. He touches on the importance of making conscious decisions now about how we design, use, and regulate AI. Rather than presenting a doomsday scenario, he offers solutions and paths we might take to ensure AI is a boon, not a bane. Clifford, Catherine (24 August 2018). "This former Google X exec reverse engineered happiness — here's what he found". NBC News. All those moral questions of virtual vice. There is so much AI being developed for porn and sex robots and so on. What are we telling those machines? Are we telling them it’s OK for a human to abuse a machine but not abuse another human? Why is the differentiation? You know, if we as capitalism will drive us, will probably find some sex robots and robots that are available for humans to abuse and beat, what are we telling them? The question of ethics becomes so deeply the cornerstone of this conversation. And the bigger problem with ethics, and I think you would agree, is that we humans have never agreed any. The answer is us. Humans design the algorithms that define the way that AI works, and the processed information reflects an imperfect world. Does that mean we are doomed? In Scary Smart, Mo Gawdat, the internationally bestselling author of Solve for Happy, draws on his considerable expertise to answer this question and to show what we can all do now to teach ourselves and our machines how to live better. With more than thirty years’ experience working at the cutting-edge of technology and his former role as chief business officer of Google [X], no one is better placed than Mo Gawdat to explain how the Artificial Intelligence of the future works. Or, it could be that this text was actually written (developed? Spawned?) by an AI bot which is why it was so sparsely referenced, simply circular and most annoyingly…Based on the EXTREME LEVEL of plausible concern the first 90% of the book elicits. That particular solution doesn’t seem like it will cut the mustard.

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I read a borrowed copy of this book courtesy of my local indie bookstore, which is hosting a talk on the subject of AI soon. There wasn’t much depth into topics: yes AI could be good or bad and it’s there in all the cliche ways you would expect.

So, you go across the Atlantic and the moral makeup is patriotism and it’s ok to kill the other guy. You go in Dharamsala, where the Dalai Lama and the Buddhists would live, and they go, like, ‘don’t kill a fly’, right? We haven’t agreed… We haven’t managed to agree. And I think my book is centred around this. And you know that because always the very last statement of any one of my books is basically the summary of the message and the summary of scary smart is, isn’t it ironic that the core of what makes us human – love, compassion and happiness, is what could save us in the age of the rise of the machines? And I think if we were to be realistic, the only ethics humanity has ever agreed was that we all want to be happy.

Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How

The other question I get on the topic is that how does the presence of AI contradict the concept of God for those who believe in God? I think the parameters continue to remain the same. So, the reality is that AI was created within a world that is created, or within a world that existed. So, the rules that created that world in which you’ve created, worlds will basically be subjected to the same assumptions. So, could AI be like a God? Yes. If you believe there is a God, then that God still exists on top of AI, if you don’t, then you’ve never had that argument anyway. And I think that’s an interesting philosophical contemplation to go through. Scary Smart will teach you how to navigate the scary and inevitable intrusion of Artificial Intelligence, with an accessible blueprint for creating a harmonious future alongside AI. From Mo Gawdat, the former Chief Business Officer at Google [X] and bestselling author of Solve for Happy. Mainly if people have just one wish, they want to be happy. But we can't just tell computers that or they could dope us. In 2021, Gawdat published Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World through Macmillan. [10] Personal life [ edit ] Children don't learn from what you say. They learn from what you do." AIs are already reading and learning from what we say and choose and do online. And what we support. Every year we create more information than we created in human history to date. So "the store of collective human knowledge is diluted by 50% each year" and altered in tone by the new data.If we all refuse to buy the next version of the iPhone, because we really don’t need a fancier look or an even better camera at the expense of our environment, Apple will understand that they need to create something that we actually need. If we insist that we will not buy a new phone until it delivers a real benefit, like helping us make our life more sustainable or improving our digital health, that will be the product that is created next. Similarly, if we make it clear that we welcome AI into our lives only when it delivers benefit to ourselves and to our planet, and reject it when it doesn’t, AI developers will try to capture that opportunity. Keep doing this consistently and the needle will shift.

Mo The Future of Artificial Intelligence, A Conversation with Mo

From a brilliant mind comes a terrifying prediction' – Tim Ash, bestselling author of Unleash Your Primal BrainWhile the book can be a little dry at times, and some points may be repeated excessively, it is a worthwhile read accessible to many readers. The book presents a balanced view of AI’s potential benefits and dangers and provides a roadmap to ensure that AI development aligns with our values and priorities. Mo Gawdat]: History says that since the very ancient times, some of the dreams of the Pharaohs or the ancient Chinese civilisations was to create something that mimics humans, from automatons to Mechanical Turks, to even the clay soldiers of the Chinese armies or the big guards of the pharaonic era….