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Scary Smart
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
- Narrated by: Mo Gawdat
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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Summary
This audiobook is masterfully read by the author, Mo Gawdat.
One of The Sunday Times' Business Books of the Year
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
'From a brilliant mind comes a terrifying prediction' – Tim Ash, bestselling author of Unleash Your Primal Brain
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 audiobook offers a blueprint, pointing the way to what we can do to safeguard ourselves, those we love and the planet itself.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-12-22
Thought provoking stuff
I enjoyed this book. It’s certainly very thought provoking in our current “scary” world. The underlying message that we are the ones who are creating the climate of online negativity by the way we interact with it, we can equally teach it to be a force for good
I love listening to Mo Gawdat’s voice too!
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- Magda S.
- 15-03-23
compulsory reading for everyone
ii didnt have a clue about tech and how it's made so this background into artificial intelligence was a revelation to me. We should all learn about it as it can literally reshape the world as we know it. some scary stuff there but hopefully nature prevails before our stupid kind brings ourselves to extinction.
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- Donna McVey
- 10-07-24
This is a MUST read
Mo Gawdat has a gift for explaining complex issues in a simple way. This is a must read for evey human, while we still can !
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- David Hughes
- 06-07-24
A Must Listen Book for Everyone
I got this book to find about about AI and why all the Buzz. I got that and much more. A thorough understanding of what it is, how it will inevitably force rapid change, could possibly consume us and how we need to play a part in shaping the future. Very interesting, important messages delivered by a brilliant mind.
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- Aram Kradjian
- 21-08-22
Great book
Opened up my thinking around AI
It got a bit wordy towards the end and could have been summarized by 100 pages but overall fascinating approach with great analogies and great examples
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- Robert Turner
- 06-07-23
Must read
One of the most important books in existence. Imperative reading to understand our imminent future.
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- Rob
- 22-01-24
Eye opening stuff
Mo clearly comes from a place of incredible insider knowledge having worked as the Chief Business Office at Google X. This book looks into the direction of AI travel and how it will change the world.
Well structured and articulately written it gives the reader a peek inside Silicon Valley’s Pandora’s Box and helps us prepare for the ‘inevitables’.
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- Amazon Customer
- 19-08-24
All hail our robot overlords
Beautifully written and elegantly argued, Mo is the perfect bridge between science and spirituality. Scary but also positive.
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- Berrylan
- 25-09-24
We need more people like Mo Gawdat
Thank you for the gift of this book. I will be looking up your book on happiness.
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- HardToPlease
- 18-06-23
Wonderful Insights into AI
Thought provoking book about the future of humanity and the emergence of super intelligence beings. Will be learning a lot more about AI going forwards. Highly recommended.
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