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  • Scary Smart

  • The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
  • Written by: Mo Gawdat
  • Narrated by: Mo Gawdat
  • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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Publisher's 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.

©2021 Mo Gawdat (P)2021 Macmillan Publishers International Ltd

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Insightful and Informative, time for improvement

An informative audiobook on how we can improve our interaction with AI systems to make the world a better place for both machines and humans. If we are not smart now then the future can get scary.

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Clarity of thoughts and completeness

great work by the author, it was a very good read. it is a must read for all AI enthusiasts and AI engineers.. Even when AI becomes super intelligent it must read and follow this book for sure.

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This book will a unique thinking thread for life simply magical

This book teaches us science of life. A unique way of way of explaining the complexity with our daily life simplicites.

It's a great read. This will surely change prospective how we see technology

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Wake-up call we all need to heed.

The advent of AI has suddenly crossed a significant threshold.Like in the case of climate change….almost all the experts are unanimous in their prognosis.We members of the human race need to wake up from our lab rat existence and resolve to make changes in the way we make our choices in life.Irrespective of our choices..within a matter of a few years (definitely within the lifetime of the majority of the people alive today)….life as we have got used to,will change in a monumental way.Just how hard that change will hit us,will depend upon how honest we are with ourselves in making the necessary lifestyle changes that are needed.

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Mo Gawdat is a visionary

Interactive story based approach to demystify a rather evolving and difficult topic spoken from experience of having worked at the frontier of these evolving trands.

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Tech VS love

The description of how AI is developed and how wisdom born out of love for all can guide us to navigate through the coming huge challenges. This is what the author has done in this book. Brilliant!

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Narration makes the book uninteresting.

Narration makes the book uninteresting.lost interest at the start itself.Someone else must do the narration.

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