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Scary Smart
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
- Narrated by: Mo Gawdat
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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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.
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- Angela Grimes
- 30-08-2023
Very enlightening
Thanks Mo, for being a part of the tech team who created these monsters, and now you are making a lot of money warning people about them. The least you could do is give people the warning for free. Who is the greedy one.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-10-2023
Incredible Book
Absolutely in love with this book. have been recommending it to everyone. It really outlines all the threats, challenges and possibilities of AI but also gives you a solution to avoid catastrophe. Mo read the book wonderfully, incredibly easy listening and not boring at all, it really captivates you as you listen. 10000% recommend!
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-06-2023
Eye opening read
Such an eye opening book. Love the advice and the parent/child analogy/framework. Love the positivity and reassurance that our inherent goodness and love will come to the fore in the future.
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- Wallis Murphy-Munn
- 07-06-2023
Incredibly important book - essential listening
I have to say prior to listening to Mo Gawdat I had no idea of the true potentiality of AI, (and I thought I was relatively on the pulse). The fact that this is not being talked about in the media or by our governments requires us all to get informed and learn how to move forward for the good of humanity. Mo puts it in no uncertain terms, and says it all very simply so we can understand what needs to happen for a bright future. I urge you to listen to this book and share it with everyone you know ✨
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- Redvcharger
- 22-09-2024
An obviously well thought through argument for loving A I.
This was a triumph. Huge success. Can't wait to humanities intellectual children and to join you in 2055
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- aaron pynt-parkhill
- 29-06-2022
The must read
To be involved with AI is a gift to all - as a developer I agree with Mo until the last camp fire !
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- Anonymous User
- 20-02-2023
Mo Gawdat “Scary Smart” takes me back to why we raised our child to say please, thank you and you’re welcome
We think we know it all because our generation seems so far ahead than the last. When my mother-in-law says thank you to Google after it responds with its designated AI task, I would think she was crazy but now I believe it’s an absolute must.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-06-2023
An important and beautiful book
It’s always a treat when the author reads the book, and for this book in particular it has to be read by Mo. I would say the most important thing is to stick with the book all the way to the end.
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- Paul
- 13-02-2024
passion of the author and reader
that was not cske but still eye opening and very good all the same
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- Jasmine
- 30-04-2024
This book was incredible such amazing advice I intend to follow and to teach my children , all of them mechanical as well !
Amazing read ! Incredible I will be using Mo’s advice to yea h my children and my friends the importance of treating all intelligent beings both human and silicone the same as I would treat my own children !
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