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

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At the same time, encourage AI that is good for humanity. Use it more. Talk about it. Share it with others and make it clear that you welcome these forms of AI into your life. Encourage the use of self-driving cars, they make humans safer. Use translation and communication tools, they bring us closer together. Post about every positive, friendly, healthy use of AI you find, to make others aware of it. The AI dilemma is reshaping our future whether you’re in favor of it or not. The question is, are we even close to being prepared for humanity’s collision with artificial intelligence? Gawdat’s writing style is also a plus. It’s conversational, which means it’s like sitting down with a friend (albeit a very informed one) for a chat about the future. There’s no heavy academic jargon here, and I truly appreciated that. It made the reading experience fluid and engaging. 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.

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I found a few graphs, which were useful. I found the circled points a little annoying, but maybe the author learns better this way.

When we ask computers to communicate, at first they communicate like we tell them, but if they're intelligent enough, they'll start to say, ‘that's too slow.’” A useful summary of all things AI whilst also introducing topics and potential problems that I have never even considered! This provided a great balance of the good and the bad, allowing the reader to use evidence and questions posed to come to their own conclusions, whilst carefully interweaving facts with humour and speculation. I particularly loved the sections on ethics and morality. Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a book for you. Because, believe it or not, you are the only one that can fix it. – Mo Gawdat Artificial intelligence is smarter than humans. It can process information at lightning speed and remain focused on specific tasks without distraction. AI can see into the future, predicting outcomes and even use sensors to see around physical and virtual corners. So why does AI frequently get it so wrong? 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. By 2049 AI will be a billion times more intelligent than humans. Scary Smart explains how to fix the current trajectory now, to make sure that the AI of the future can preserve our species. This book offers a blueprint, pointing the way to what we can do to safeguard ourselves, those we love and the planet itself. Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World by Mo Gawdat – eBook Details Self-driving cars have already driven tens of millions of miles among us. Powered by a moderate level of intelligence, they, on average, drive better than most humans. They keep their ‘eyes’ on the road and they don’t get distracted. They can see further than us and they teach each other what each of them learns individually in a matter of seconds. It’s no longer a matter of if but rather when they will become part of our daily life. When they do, they will have to make a multitude of ethical decisions of the kind that we humans have had to make, billions of times, since we started to drive.

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Emergency Episode: Ex-Google Officer Finally Speaks Out on the Dangers of AI! – Mo Gawdat | E252 , retrieved 1 October 2023 I think the analogy I normally use is that some intelligent designer created an Xbox and the game Halo on it. And then that intelligent designer sat down to play the game. And I think that analogy is quite OK with the spiritual teachings that say that we are a drop of the spirit of the divine if you want, right? It is also a very logical argument for those who want to believe in a simulation. And I must admit to you, when you really look at the abundance of creation for a software engineer like myself, the easiest way to do that is to do it with bits and bytes, not atoms, really. It’s to do it with software. But that’s an irrelevant argument if you ask me, considering the situation we have at hand, because once again, I think we’ve managed to play the game so far that we’re creating a scenario in the game that will either take the controller out of our hands or completely shut our console off. And hopefully what we are interested to see is that this simulation, this next step is going to allow us to stay within connection to that game somehow. And my argument within Scary Smart is that AI is not a slave. It is a form of sentient being that needs to be appealed to rather than controlled. And I think that argument truly is the core of the breakage, if you want, of the human ego. It’s for us to say ‘ whoops, we’re so amazing that we created something smarter than us’ and then suddenly say ‘ whoops. But that something smarter than us now needs to like us’. And it needs to want to serve us. Otherwise, we’re in deep trouble. Internationally bestselling author of Solve for Happy and former chief business officer at Google [X], Mo Gawdat has spent more than three decades at the forefront of technological development. His latest book, Scary Smartprovides an ominous warning about artificial intelligence. Teach each other how to teach the AI. (This ought to be 'one another' as more than two people are involved.)There has never been a time when the risk of technology ruining our humanity has been bigger. This book is not for the engineers that write the code, the policy makers who claim they can regulate it or the experts that keep creating the buzz around it. They all know what I’m about to tell you. This is a book for you. Because, believe it or not, you are the only one that can fix it' Mo Gawdat Mention is made of Portal, "one of the earliest mainstream games to feature a female avatar" - not at all, Dungeon Siege I played as a female since 2002. Mohammad " Mo" Gawdat (Arabic: محمد جودت) is an Egyptian entrepreneur and writer. He previously served as chief business officer for Google X and is the author of the books Solve for Happy [1] [2] and Scary Smart. [3] Early life [ edit ] 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. Meet Mo Gawdat, the AI expert who wants you to chill out". British GQ (Conde Nast). 26 June 2023 . Retrieved 1 October 2023.