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How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years?\nA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “This inspired collaboration between a pioneering technologist and a visionary writer of science fiction offers bold and urgent insights.”—Yann LeCun, winner of the Turing Award; chief AI scientist, Facebook\n“Amazingly entertaining . . . Lee and Chen take us on an immersive trip through the future. . . . Eye-opening.”—Mark Cuban 
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.\nIn this provocative, utterly original work, Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and bestselling author of 
AI Superpowers, teams up with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping short stories, they introduce readers to an array of eye-opening 2041 settings, such as:\n• In San Francisco, the “job reallocation” industry emerges as deep learning AI causes widespread job displacement 
• In Tokyo, a music fan is swept up in an immersive form of celebrity worship based on virtual reality and mixed reality 
• In Mumbai, a teenage girl rebels when AI’s crunching of big data gets in the way of romance 
• In Seoul, virtual companions with perfected natural language processing (NLP) skills offer orphaned twins new ways to connect 
• In Munich, a rogue scientist draws on quantum computing, computer vision and other AI technologies in a revenge plot that imperils the world\nBy 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. 
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“An invaluable and entertaining vision of the future.” 
—Ray Dalio, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles\n“To say that 
AI 2041 is enlightening and valuable, is to understate its significance. . . . 
AI 2041’s scientific fiction gives us a way to open our eyes to what is actually going on all around us and where things are heading.” 
—John Kao, Forbes\n“By blending imaginative storytelling and technical expertise, Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan bring to life a vision for AI that addresses both our curiosity and our fears. Read this captivating book to better understand how and when certain technologies are likely to mature, and what that could mean for all of us.” 
—Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft\n“We have reached a momentous inflection point with AI, and no other book I’ve read captures it with such stunning insight and imagination. Instead of wondering whether to trust AI, we must think of it as a tool—one that we humans are in charge of shaping. Kai-Fu Lee’s brilliant analysis in 
AI 2041 embodies this urgent mandate for humanity, while Chen Qiufan’s gripping stories reveal how AI can become a bridge between previously unsolvable problems and a future of new possibilities.” 
—Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO, Thrive Global\n“ 
AI 2041 is the perfect fusion of science and fiction, illuminating the pervasive impact artificial intelligence will have in our lives and the challenges we face in shaping a techno-future that benefits all of humanity.” 
—Marc Benioff, chair and CEO, Salesforce\n“Applying AI to business usually means learning the technology first and then figuring out how to apply it. 
AI 2041 allows readers to take the exact opposite ap

AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

Business & Money

Lee, Kai-Fu

Qiufan, Chen

Industries

Crown Currency

How will AI change our world within twenty years? A pioneering technologist and acclaimed writer team up for&nbsp;a "dazzling" (The New York Times) look at the future that "brims with intriguing insights" (Financial Times). This edition includes a new foreword by Kai-Fu Lee. &nbsp; Named a best book of the year by The Wall Street Journal * The Washington Post * Financial Times &nbsp; Long before the advent of ChatGPT, Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan understood the enormous potential of artificial intelligence to transform our daily lives. But even as the world wakes up to the power of AI, many of us still fail to grasp the big picture. Chatbots and large language models are only the beginning. &nbsp; In this "inspired collaboration" (The Wall Street Journal), Lee and Chen join forces to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping, globe-spanning short stories and accompanying commentary, their book introduces readers to an array of eye-opening settings and characters grappling with the new abundance and potential harms of AI technologies like deep learning, mixed reality, robotics, artificial general intelligence, and autonomous weapons.

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy 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 April 2016 issue (#115) contains:  Original fiction by Carolyn Ives Gilman ("Touring with the Alien"), Gregory Feeley ("The Bridge of Dreams"), Sara Saab ("The Cedar Grid"), and Chen Qiufan ("Balin"). Reprints from Garth Nix ("Old Friends") and Elizabeth Hand ("Winters Wife"). Non-fiction by Jason Heller (Silver Machine: Hawkwind's Space Rock Journey throughout Science Fiction and Fantasy), an interview with David Brin, an Another Word column by Margot Atwell, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

Clarkesworld Issue 115 (Clarkesworld Magazine)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

NIX, Garth

Hand, Elizabeth

Clarke, Neil

Gilman, Carolyn Ives

Feeley, Gregory

Saab, Sara

Science Fiction

Clarkesworld Magazine

Award-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking vision of the future. Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking readers.
Mimi is drowning in the world's trash. 
She’s a waste worker on Silicon Isle, where electronics -- from cell phones and laptops to bots and bionic limbs ― are sent to be recycled. These amass in towering heaps, polluting every spare inch of land. On this island off the coast of China, the fruits of capitalism and consumer culture come to a toxic end.
Mimi and thousands of migrant waste workers like her are lured to Silicon Isle with the promise of steady work and a better life. They're the lifeblood of the island’s economy, but are at the mercy of those in power. 
A storm is brewing, between ruthless local gangs, warring for control. Ecoterrorists, set on toppling the status quo. American investors, hungry for profit. And a Chinese-American interpreter, searching for his roots. 
As these forces collide, a war erupts -- between the rich and the poor; between tradition and modern ambition; between humanity’s past and its future. 
Mimi, and others like her, must decide if they will remain pawns in this war or change the rules of the game altogether.
 "An accomplished eco-techno-thriller with heart and soul as well as brain. Chen Qiufan is an astute observer, both of the present world and of the future that the next generation is in danger of inheriting." – David Mitchell, New York Times bestselling author of Cloud Atlas

Waste Tide

Tor Books

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL Award-winning author Chen Qiufan'sWaste Tide is a thought-provoking vision of the future. Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winningThe Three Body Problem to English-speaking readers. Mimi is drowning in the world's trash. She's a waste worker on Silicon Isle, where electronics -- from cell phones and laptops to bots and bionic limbs -- are sent to be recycled. These amass in towering heaps, polluting every spare inch of land. On this island off the coast of China, the fruits of capitalism and consumer culture come to a toxic end. Mimi and thousands of migrant waste workers like her are lured to Silicon Isle with the promise of steady work and a better life. They're the lifeblood of the island's economy, but are at the mercy of those in power. A storm is brewing, between ruthless local gangs, warring for control. Ecoterrorists, set on toppling the status quo. American investors, hungry for profit. And a Chinese-American interpreter, searching for his roots. As these forces collide, a war erupts -- between the rich and the poor; between tradition and modern ambition; between humanity's past and its future. Mimi, and others like her, must decide if they will remain pawns in this war or change the rules of the game altogether. "An accomplished eco-techno-thriller with heart and soul as well as brain.Chen Qiufan is an astute observer, both of the present world and of the future that the next generation is in danger of inheriting." -David Mitchell,New York Timesbestselling author ofCloud Atlas

Award-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking future vision of how climate change affects the world.Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking listeners.Mimi is a 'waste girl.’ A member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle, located off China’s southeastern coast, and home to the world’s largest electronic waste recycling center. There, thousands of miles from home, Mimi struggles to earn a living for her family and dreams of a better life. Luo Jincheng is the head of one of three clans who run the island, a role passed down from his father and grandfather before him. As the government enforces tighter restrictions, Luo in turn tightens the reins on the waste workers in his employ. Ruthlessness is his means of survival. Scott Brandle has come to Silicon Isle representing TerraGreen Recycling, an American corporation that stands to earn ungodly sums if they can reach a deal to modernize the island’s recycling process. Chen Kaizong, a Chinese American, travels to Silicon Isle as Scott’s interpreter. There, Kaizong is hoping to find his heritage, but finds only more questions. The home he longs for may not exist.As these forces collide, a dark futuristic virus is unleashed on the island. Against the backdrop of a gritty near-future Chinese landscape, in a world of body modifications and virtual reality, a war erupts -- between the rich and the poor; between ancient traditions and modern ambition; between humanity’s past and its future.

MacMillan Audio

Clarkesworld Issue 155 (Clarkesworld Magazine)

TURTLEDOVE, HARRY

Swirsky, Rachel

Djuna

Spires, D.A. Xiaolin

Barnett, Beston

Fantasy

Wyrm Publishing

.Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy 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 January 2020 issue (#160) contains:* Original fiction by Naomi Kritzer ("Monster"), Filip Hajdar Drnovsek Zorko ("The AI That Looked at the Sun"), Rita Chang-Eppig ("The Last to Die"), I-Hyeong Yun ("The Perfect Sail"), and Chen Qiufan ("The Ancestral Temple in a Box").* Non-fiction by Douglas F. Dluzen, interviews with Walter Jon Williams and Victo Ngai, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

Clarkesworld Issue 160 (Clarkesworld Magazine)

Literature & Fiction

Kritzer, Naomi

Drnovsek Zorko, Filip Hajdar

Chang-Eppig, Rita

Yun, I-Hyeong

Short Stories & Anthologies

Clarkesworld Issue 163 (Clarkesworld Magazine)

Tsamaase, Tlotlo

Lee, P H

Siddiqui, Sameem

Miller, Kyle E

Szabranski, Henry

Head of Zeus

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