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Introduction by Kai-Fu Lee: The Real Story of AI

Introduction by Chen Qiufan: How We Can Learn to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Future with Imagination

One: The Golden Elephant
• Analysis: Deep learning, big data, internet/finance applications, AI externalities

Two: The Gods Behind the Masks
• Analysis: Computer vision, convolutional neural networks, deepfakes, generative adversarial networks (GANs), biometrics, AI security

Three: Twin Sparrows
• Analysis: Natural language processing, self-supervised training, GPT-3, AGI and consciousness, AI education

Four: Contactless Love
• Analysis: AI healthcare, AlphaFold, robotic applications, COVID automation accelation

Five: My Haunting Idol
• Analysis: Virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), brain-computer interface (BCI), ethical and societal issues

Six: The Holy Driver
• Analysis: Autonomous vehicles, full autonomy and smart cities, ethical and social issues

Seven: Quantum Genocide
• Analysis: Quantum computers, bitcoin security, autonomous weapons and existential threat

Eight: The Job Savior
• Analysis: AI job displacement, universal basic income (UBI), what AI cannot do, 3RS as a solution to displacement

Nine: Isle of Happiness
• Analysis: AI and happiness, general data protection regulation (GDPR), personal data, privacy computing using federated learning and trusted execution environment (TEE)

Ten: Dreaming of Plenitude
• Analysis: Plenitude, new economic models, the future of money, singularity

Acknowledgments

Index

Table of Contents

Introduction by Kai-Fu Lee: The Real Story of AI

Introduction by Chen Qiufan: How We Can Learn to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Future with Imagination

One: The Golden Elephant
• Analysis: Deep learning, big data, internet/finance applications, AI externalities

Two: The Gods Behind the Masks
• Analysis: Computer vision, convolutional neural networks, deepfakes, generative adversarial networks (GANs), biometrics, AI security

Three: Twin Sparrows
• Analysis: Natural language processing, self-supervised training, GPT-3, AGI and consciousness, AI education

Four: Contactless Love
• Analysis: AI healthcare, AlphaFold, robotic applications, COVID automation accelation

Five: My Haunting Idol
• Analysis: Virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), brain-computer interface (BCI), ethical and societal issues

Six: The Holy Driver
• Analysis: Autonomous vehicles, full autonomy and smart cities, ethical and social issues

Seven: Quantum Genocide
• Analysis: Quantum computers, bitcoin security, autonomous weapons and existential threat

Eight: The Job Savior
• Analysis: AI job displacement, universal basic income (UBI), what AI cannot do, 3RS as a solution to displacement

Nine: Isle of Happiness
• Analysis: AI and happiness, general data protection regulation (GDPR), personal data, privacy computing using federated learning and trusted execution environment (TEE)

Ten: Dreaming of Plenitude
• Analysis: Plenitude, new economic models, the future of money, singularity

Acknowledgments

Index

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