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

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Gawdat espouses three inevitable outcomes: AI will happen, the machines will outsmart us, and mistakes will happen. Disclaimer: Any financial and crypto market information given on Analytics Insight are sponsored articles, written for informational purpose only and is not an investment advice. Gawdat also tackles the subject of human arrogance at the beginning of the book, using the example of how we don't think that a tree is conscious or intelligent (speak for yourself, mate) but seems either blind or immune to his own arrogance.

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AI in my opinion is going to another big fizzer in the endless assembly line of shaken up soda bottles that is man's futile attempts to play God on nature. And the difference between our intelligence and them is irrelevant in comparison to the difference between our intelligence and super-intelligence. 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.AI can forecast events in the future and utilize sensors to look around physical and virtual corners. If you want the essence of this book without all the fluff I would recommend go listening to ep210 of the “talks at google” podcast instead. In the Middle East and Eastern Europe, he sat on the boards of many technologies, health, and fitness, and consumer products firms, as well as several government technologies and innovation boards.

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As a former chief business officer at Google X, serial entrepreneur and start-up mentor, he’s native to a world that’s unafraid to take on big concept horizon scanning. From Mo Gawdat, the former Chief Business Officer at Google [X] and bestselling author of Solve for Happy. Huge diversions from the claimed central topic abound and by the end descend into a repetitive, self-indulgent, techno-hippy mess.Dr Camilla Pang, author of Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us About Life, Love and Relationships From a brilliant mind comes a terrifying prediction - our puny efforts will not be enough to control the rise of the machines. To start, Gawdat’s background in tech (having been the Chief Business Officer at Google [X], no less) lends a depth to his insights. In 2021, Gawdat published Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World through Macmillan.

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the uneven response to the COVID-19 pandemic as an example of how a lack of preparedness can be disastrous (the book was released in 2021), and at the very end, the wonderful game Portal and its portrayal of AI.Gawdat’s method of recapping with such easy-to-remember soundbites helps to move his argument along at an exhilarating pace. When it shows them repeatedly, I let them run to exhaust the budget of the annoying advertiser and confuse the AI that is not working in my favour. 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?