In a groundbreaking blend of science and imagination, the former president of Google China and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an urgent question: How will artificial intelligence change our world over the next twenty years?\nAI will be the defining issue of the twenty-first century, but many people know little about it apart from visions of dystopian robots or flying cars. Though the term has been around for half a century, it is only now, Kai-Fu Lee argues, that AI is poised to upend our society, just as the arrival of technologies like electricity and smart phones did before it. In the past five years, AI has shown it can learn games like chess in mere hours--and beat humans every time. AI has surpassed humans in speech and object recognition, even outperforming radiologists in diagnosing lung cancer. AI is at a tipping point. What comes next?\nWithin two decades, aspects of daily life may be unrecognizable. Humankind needs to wake up to AI, both its pathways and perils. In this provocative work that juxtaposes speculative storytelling and science, Lee, one of the world's leading AI experts, has teamed up with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to reveal how AI will trickle down into every aspect of our world by 2041. In ten gripping narratives that crisscross the globe, coupled with incisive analysis, Lee and Chen explore AI's challenges and its potential:\n- Ubiquitous AI that knows you better than you know yourself 
- Genetic fortune-telling that predicts risk of disease or even IQ 
- AI sensors that creates a fully contactless society in a future pandemic 
- Immersive personalized entertainment to challenge our notion of celebrity 
- Quantum computing and other leaps that both eliminate and increase risk\nBy gazing toward a not-so-distant horizon, AI 2041 offers powerful insights and compelling storytelling for everyone interested in our collective future.

AI 2041

Kai-Fu Lee

Chen, Qiufan

Random House]

Clarkesworld is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.
Our March 2015 issue (#102) contains:
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<li>Original Fiction by Naim Kabir ("Slowly Builds An Empire"), Ken Liu ("Cassandra"), Catherynne M. Valente ("The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild (Part 2)"), Mike Buckley ("All Original Brightness"), Chen Qiufan ("Coming of the Light").</li>
<li>Reprints by Gregory Benford ("The Clear Blue Seas of Luna") and Lavie Tidhar ("The Book Seller")</li>
<li>Non-fiction by Orrin Grey (Dark Angels: Insects in the Films of Guillermo del Toro), interviews with Randy Henderson, Silvia Morena-Garcia, and Chen Qiufan, an Another Word column by Chuck Wendig, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.</li>
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Clarkesworld Issue 102 (Clarkesworld Magazine)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Valente, Catherynne M.

BENFORD, GREGORY

Liu, Ken

Clarke, Neil

Tidhar, Lavie

Buckley, Mike

Kabir, Naim

Science Fiction

Clarkesworld Magazine

A WALL STREET JOURNAL, WASHINGTON POST, AND FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIn this ground-breaking blend of imaginative storytelling and scientific forecasting, a pioneering AI expert and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an imperative How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years?AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand new forms of communication and entertainment. In liberating us from routine work, however, AI will also challenge the organizing principles of our economic and social order. Meanwhile, AI will bring new risks in the form of autonomous weapons and smart technology that inherits human bias. AI is at a tipping point, and people need to wake up-both to AI's radiant pathways and its existential perils for life as we know it.In this provocative, utterly original work of "scientific fiction," Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and bestselling author of AI Superpowers , joins forces with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping short stories, set twenty years in the future, they introduce readers to an array of eye-opening 2041In San Francisco, a new industry, "job reallocation," arises to serve displaced workersIn Tokyo, a music fan is swept up in an immersive form of celebrity worshipIn Mumbai, a teenage girl rebels when AI gets in the way of romanceIn Seoul, virtual teachers offer orphaned twins new ways to learn and connectIn Munich, a rogue quantum computer scientist's revenge plot imperils the worldBy gazing toward a not-so-distant horizon, AI 2041 offers urgent insights into our collective future-while reminding readers that, ultimately, humankind remains the author of its destiny.

WH Allen

AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

W.H.Allen

Waste Tide

Tor Books

'Waste girl' Mimi becomes infected with a virus, becoming the host for an omniscient consciousness, hell-bent on righting wrongs - and igniting a class war and more.A Guardian Science Fiction Book of the Year. Mimi is drowning in the world's trash.She's a 'waste girl', a scavenger picking through towering heaps of hazardous electronic detritus. Along with thousands of other migrant workers, she was lured to Silicon Isle, off the southern coast of China, by the promise of steady work and a better life.But Silicon Isle is where the rotten fruits of capitalism and consumer culture come to their toxic end. The land is hopelessly polluted , the workers utterly at the mercy of those in power. And now a storm is gathering , as ruthless local gangs skirmish for control, eco-terrorists conspire, investors hunger for profit, and a Chinese-American interpreter searches for his roots.As these forces collide, conflict erupts – a war between rich and poor, a battle between past and future . Mimi must decide if she will remain a pawn... or change the rules of the game altogether.'An accomplished eco-techno-thriller with heart and soul' DAVID MITCHELL.' Waste Tide is a work of spoiled and toxic beauty... It's more than a timely eco-thriller; it's a dark mirror held up to our selves' SIMON INGS.

The Waste Tide

Head of Zeus

L'île de Silicium

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Rivages *

KI 2041: Zehn Zukunftsvisionen

Lee, Kai-Fu

Campus Verlag GmbH

一座被卷入全球化浪潮的电子垃圾之岛，污染肆虐，犯罪横行。 一台用途不明的危险义体，牵扯出一位女孩大脑的疯狂异变。 贪心的大家族、饱受歧视的劳工、暗藏其间的经济杀手……小小的孤岛之上暗流涌动。 而这一切，都指向一场尘封六十年的的禁忌实验——“荒潮”计划……

The Waste Tide (Chinese Edition)

Shanghai literature and Art Publishing House

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