The author, Mo Gawdat is the former director of Google X, the “infamous” Xerox Park/DARPA style “moonshot factory” where Goole researches and develops their more leading edge stuff like: 1. Waymo: Googles self-driving car project thing. 2. Google Glass: googles early attempt at smart glasses. 3. Wing: googles drone delivery project. And 4. Project Makani: An effort to generate electricity using airborne wind turbines. Mohammad " Mo" Gawdat (Arabic: محمد جودت) is an Egyptian entrepreneur and writer. He previously served as chief business officer for Google X and is the author of the books Solve for Happy [1] [2] and Scary Smart. [3] Early life [ edit ] a b Rifkind, Hugo (29 September 2021). "Can this man save the world from artificial intelligence?". The Times. Mo Gawdat is the former chief business officer for Google X and has built a monumental career in the tech industry working with the biggest names to reshape and reimagine the world as we know it. From IBM to Microsoft, Mo has lived at the cutting edge of technology and has taken a strong stance that AI is a bigger threat to humanity than global warming. And according to Gowat, even without QC, AI is hitting an inflection point, where it is self improving, whereby the law of doubling (exponential sigmoid shaped growth). But the addition of QC means that AI will likely be BILLIONS of times more intelligent that humans, within our lifetime.

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Teach each other how to teach the AI. (This ought to be 'one another' as more than two people are involved.) The solution-to-problem relationship is like trying to use afly swatter to bat away a nuclear warhead. Another 200,000 reasons why no developer of AI today actually uses any of the scenarios that are well-documented to solve the control problem. Nobody tripwires their own machine. Nobody simulates, nobody boxes. Nobody does any of those technical solutions. The AI dilemma is reshaping our future whether you’re in favor of it or not. The question is, are we even close to being prepared for humanity’s collision with artificial intelligence? Let’s face it, AI will not be made to think like the average human. It will be made to think like economists, sales executives, soldiers, politicians and corporations. And like those highly driven subsets of humanity, AI stands the risk of being as biased and blinded by what it measures. You see, it’s not that we can only measure what we see, but rather that we zoom in with tunnel vision and only see what we measure. That reinforces what we see and then we create more of it as a result. And yes, sadly, we are not designing AI to think like a human, we are designing it to think like a man. The male-dominated pool of developers who are building the future of AI today are likely to create machines that favour so-called ‘masculine’ traits.

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Mo Gawdat]: From one side, we could expect that this [ artificial intelligence] could be the worst thing that ever happened to humanity and that humanity will be reduced into irrelevance. and become completely irrelevant, like the apes are almost irrelevant for the destination or the destiny of the planet. Because artificial intelligence is bound to become comparable in its intelligence to our intelligence compared to the apes. If you consider the impact the the internet has had on our world over the past 30 years. It followed a sigmoid trajectory, whereby the it begins to be widely adopted around 1995, slowly ramps up in public interest, investment, adaptation and impact over the next 25 years with mass adaptation, and eventually levels off as the limits of our current tech paradigm are reached.

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I found the book interesting when it touched on the history and myth of man trying to create artificial beings. It appears humans have long desired to create something to ease our mundane tasks or entertain us. The book also provided some recent examples of AI experiments gone wrong that had to be shut down. AI is already more capable and intelligent than humanity. Today's self-driving cars are better than the average human driver and fifty per cent of jobs in the US are expected to be taken by AI-automated machines before the end of the century. In this urgent piece, Mo argues that if we don’t take action now – in the infancy of AI development – it may become too powerful to control. If our behaviour towards technology remains unchanged, AI could disregard human morals in favour of profits and efficiency, with alarming and far-reaching consequences. Thats an approximation of the difference between our human abilities and the super-intelligence we’re about to give birth to and by default become completely dependent upon. I'm paraphrasing what the author has to tell us, as he knows a great deal more about AI than I do - having worked for Google and watched an army of gripping robots learning from one another how to lift children's toys. Direct quotes are in quotes. After reading Mo Gawdat’s book, Scary Smart, I knew right away this conversation was a must. As I think about AI’s capabilities – the good, the bad and possibly terrifying, I realize how serious this moment is in history for humanity.One of the shining aspects of the book is the focus on ethics. In the vast AI literature, ethics is a topic that often feels either neglected or glossed over. Gawdat, however, prioritizes it. He touches on the importance of making conscious decisions now about how we design, use, and regulate AI. Rather than presenting a doomsday scenario, he offers solutions and paths we might take to ensure AI is a boon, not a bane. The answer is us: the human beings who write the code and teach AI to mimic our behaviour. Scary Smart explains how to fix the current trajectory now, to make sure that the AI of the future can preserve our species. This book offers a blueprint, pointing the way to what we can do to safeguard ourselves, those we love, and the planet itself. Children don't learn from what you say. They learn from what you do." AIs are already reading and learning from what we say and choose and do online. And what we support. Every year we create more information than we created in human history to date. So "the store of collective human knowledge is diluted by 50% each year" and altered in tone by the new data. Decide what makes you happy, and invest in your own happiness. Tell machines that we want others to be happy too. They are watching all the trends, not just the ones they are told their owners want.

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This article will give you a review of the book “Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World”. All those moral questions of virtual vice. There is so much AI being developed for porn and sex robots and so on. What are we telling those machines? Are we telling them it’s OK for a human to abuse a machine but not abuse another human? Why is the differentiation? You know, if we as capitalism will drive us, will probably find some sex robots and robots that are available for humans to abuse and beat, what are we telling them? The question of ethics becomes so deeply the cornerstone of this conversation. And the bigger problem with ethics, and I think you would agree, is that we humans have never agreed any. Mainly if people have just one wish, they want to be happy. But we can't just tell computers that or they could dope us. From a brilliant mind comes a terrifying prediction' – Tim Ash, bestselling author of Unleash Your Primal Brain Based on the EXTREME LEVEL of plausible concern the first 90% of the book elicits. That particular solution doesn’t seem like it will cut the mustard.

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In 2021, Gawdat published Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World through Macmillan. [10] Personal life [ edit ]

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Because the cost of generating, of creating an iPhone, if you’re as intelligent as life itself, is almost nil. You can create an iPhone from nanoparticles or from its basic constituents with solar energy at no cost at all if you’ve created the robots that can create it. Is that a possible scenario? Yes, that’s also a possible scenario. The difference between them, however, is what we are going to do. And the biggest mistake, the biggest miss is that we can enslave AI. So, you started your questions with the discussions that are happening to ensure that we are in a good place. And the discussions are still firmly anchored in the arrogance of humanity, which is discussions around regulation and something that in computer science we call the control problem. I can argue for 200 technical reasons why the control problem is not going to be resolved, as optimistically as the scientists will say. I can argue for business problems and capitalist problems.Mo draws on his vast experience in the technology industry to explain the workings of AI and its potential impact on our lives. He argues that, as humans, we have a choice regarding AI, either embrace it and try to shape its development in a positive direction or avoid it altogether. However, the latter is not feasible since Pandora's box of AI has already been opened. There will always be those seeking to use it to further their financial gain. A section that really resonated with me was his exploration of the potential impact of AI on our day-to-day lives. Gawdat does a solid job of extrapolating current trends and imagining the world a few decades down the line. It’s a vision that’s both exciting and cautionary, filled with opportunities and pitfalls. I’ve been diving into quite a few books about artificial intelligence recently, and “Scary Smart” by Mo Gawdat truly stood out. This isn’t just another AI tome to scare the living daylights out of you with visions of robots gone rogue. Instead, it’s an intelligently written and thoughtful examination of our digital future and the role we humans play in it.