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]

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

Speech Recognition has a long history of being one of the difficult problems in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science. As one goes from problem solving tasks such as puzzles and chess to perceptual tasks such as speech and vision, the problem characteristics change dramatically: knowledge poor to knowledge rich; low data rates to high data rates; slow response time (minutes to hours) to instantaneous response time. These characteristics taken together increase the computational complexity of the problem by several orders of magnitude. Further, speech provides a challenging task domain which embodies many of the requirements of intelligent behavior: operate in real time; exploit vast amounts of knowledge, tolerate errorful, unexpected unknown input; use symbols and abstractions; communicate in natural language and learn from the environment. Voice input to computers offers a number of advantages. It provides a natural, fast, hands free, eyes free, location free input medium. However, there are many as yet unsolved problems that prevent routine use of speech as an input device by non-experts. These include cost, real time response, speaker independence, robustness to variations such as noise, microphone, speech rate and loudness, and the ability to handle non-grammatical speech. Satisfactory solutions to each of these problems can be expected within the next decade. Recognition of unrestricted spontaneous continuous speech appears unsolvable at present. However, by the addition of simple constraints, such as clarification dialog to resolve ambiguity, we believe it will be possible to develop systems capable of accepting very large vocabulary continuous speechdictation.

Automatic Speech Recognition: The Development of the SPHINX System (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 62)

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Springer

Speech Recognition has a long history of being one of the difficult problems in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science. As one goes from problem solving tasks such as puzzles and chess to perceptual tasks such as speech and vision, the problem characteristics change dramatically: knowledge poor to knowledge rich; low data rates to high data rates; slow response time (minutes to hours) to instantaneous response time. These characteristics taken together increase the computational complexity of the problem by several orders of magnitude. Further, speech provides a challenging task domain which embodies many of the requirements of intelligent behavior: operate in real time; exploit vast amounts of knowledge, tolerate errorful, unexpected unknown input; use symbols and abstractions; communicate in natural language and learn from the environment. Voice input to computers offers a number of advantages. It provides a natural, fast, hands free, eyes free, location free input medium. However, there are many as yet unsolved problems that prevent routine use of speech as an input device by non-experts. These include cost, real time response, speaker independence, robustness to variations such as noise, microphone, speech rate and loudness, and the ability to handle non-grammatical speech. Satisfactory solutions to each of these problems can be expected within the next decade. Recognition of unrestricted spontaneous continuous speech appears unsolvable at present. However, by the addition of simple constraints, such as clarification dialog to resolve ambiguity, we believe it will be possible to develop systems capable of accepting very large vocabulary continuous speechdictation.

Here are two well-known facts: 
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the world as we know it. 
The United States has long been, and remains, the global leader in AI. 
That first fact is correct. But in his provocative new book, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI—reveals that China has suddenly caught up to the US at an astonishingly rapid pace. As the US-Sino competition begins to heat up, Lee envisions China and the US forming a powerful duopoly in AI, but one that is based on each nation’s unique and traditional cultural inclinations. 
Building upon his longstanding US-Sino technology career (working at Apple, Microsoft and Google) and his much-heralded New York Times Op-Ed from June 2017, Dr. Lee predicts that Chinese and American AI will have a stunning impact on not just traditional blue-collar industries but will also have a devastating effect on white-collar professions. Is the concept of universal basic income the solution? In Dr. Lee’s opinion, probably not. 
In AI Superpowers, he outlines how millions of suddenly displaced workers must find new ways to make their lives meaningful, and how government policies will have to deal with the unprecedented inequality between the "haves" and the "have-nots." Even worse, Lee says the transformation to AI is already happening all around us, whether we are aware of it or not. 
Dr. Lee—a native of China but educated in America —argues powerfully that these unprecedented developments will happen much sooner than we think. He cautions us about the truly dramatic upheaval that AI will unleash and how we need to start thinking now on how to address these profound changes that are coming to our world.

AI Superpowers

Business & Money

Economics

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《人工智能：李开复谈AI如何重塑个人、商业与社会的未来图谱》内容简介：人工智能已经来了，它就在我们身边，几乎无处不在。人工智能技术正在彻底改变人类的认知，重建人机相互协作的关系。前所未有的自动驾驶正在重构我们头脑中的出行地图和人类生活图景，今天的人工智能技术也正在翻译、写作、绘画等人文和艺术领域进行大胆的尝试。 我们真的知道什么是人工智能吗? 我们真的准备好与人工智能共同发展了吗? 我们该如何在心理上将人和机器摆在正确的位置? 我们该如何规划人工智能时代的未来生活...... 当人工智能时代成为必然，《人工智能》一书告诉我们：个人应该做些什么，才能避免被AI取代？企业应该如何升级，才能在新的商业变局到来前抓住先机？ 我们无需担忧和惧怕人工智能时代的到来，我们所要做的，应当是尽早认清AI与人类的关系，了解变革的规律，更好地拥抱新时代的到来。

Artificial Intelligence: Kai-fu Lee on how AI reshapes the future of personal, business and society

LI KAI FU

WANG YONG GANG

文化发展出版社

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AI 2041

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AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

Automatic Speech Recognition: The Development of the SPHINX System (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 62)

Automatic Speech Recognition: The Development of the SPHINX System (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 62)

AI Superpowers

Artificial Intelligence: Kai-fu Lee on how AI reshapes the future of personal, business and society