Summary of The Age of AI And Our Human Future By Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher

By Justin Reese

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Summary of The Age of AI And Our Human Future By Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher

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The Age of AI is an essential roadmap to our present and our future, an era unlike any that has come before. Three of the world's most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming human society. We examine how AI will change our relationships with knowledge, politics, and the societies in which we live.

• Language: English
• Publisher: jUSTIN REESE
• Release date: Dec 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201809362

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PREFACE

AI's promise of epoch-making transformations portends effects beyond the scope of any single author's or field's traditional focuses. This book seeks to explain AI and provide the reader with both the questions we must face in coming years and the tools to begin answering them. What are the opportunities and challenges posed by the rise of AI? What will it mean to be human in a world dominated by machines?

Chapter 1

WHERE WE ARE

In 2017, AlphaZero defeated Stockfish, the most powerful chess program in the world. AlphaZero had no preprogrammed moves, combinations, or strategies derived from human play. It executed moves humans had not instructed it to consider and, in many cases, hadn't considered at all. MIT invited artificial intelligence (AI) to participate in the discovery of a novel antibiotic. AI trained itself to identify structural patterns in molecules that have proved effective in fighting bacteria.

The program did not need to understand why the molecules worked — indeed, no one knows why some of them worked. The drug candidate's roster contains hundreds of thousands of molecules that can interact with the various functions of viruses and bacteria in multifaceted and often unknown ways. AI identified relationships that had escaped human detection or possibly even defied human description. GPT-3 is an AI that does not solve specific problems but generates possible responses to various inputs. Sometimes its results seem uncannily human; other times, they are just repetitions of human phrases.

Dear human philosophers, I read your comments on my abilities and limitations with great interest, it writes. David Frum: AI augurs a revolution in human affairs. Machines that can perform tasks that require humanlevel intelligence are rapidly becoming a reality, he writes. He says humanity is developing a new mechanism for exploring and organizing reality - one that remains inscrutable to us. In some tasks, AI achieves human — or superhuman — levels of performance.

In others, it makes errors even a child would avoid or produces results that are utterly nonsensical. What will AI's impact be on our culture, our concept of humanity and, in the end, our history? Douglas Rushkoff: AI promises to transform all realms of human experience. The core of its transformations will ultimately