Rise of the Robots

In this sequel to his prescient New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots, Martin Ford presents us with a striking vision of the very near future. He argues that AI is a uniquely powerful technology, a kind of "electricity of intelligence" that is altering every dimension of human life, often for the better with advanced science being done by machines who can solve problems humans can not. AI has the potential to help us fight climate change or the next pandemic, but it also has a capacity for profound harm. Deep fakes-AI-generated audio or video of events that never happened-are poised to cause havoc throughout society. AI empowers authoritarian regimes like China with unprecedented mechanisms for social control. And AI can be deeply biased, learning bigoted attitudes from the data used to train algorithms and perpetuating them. <BR><BR>Hard-hitting and thought-provoking, covering everything from self-driving cars to the history of deep learning to apps for diagnosing skin cancer, Rule of the Robots challenges our fears and preconceptions about artificial intelligence. Ford argues that AI is here to stay and the real question is not how to stop it, but how to control its negative potential and harness its power for good as AI transforms our economy, our politics, and our lives.

Die Welt steht vor enormen Umwälzungen, künstliche Intelligenz ist nicht mehr aufzuhalten, sie wird jede Dimension des menschlichen Lebens verändern. Zeit also, sich mit den Folgen, den Chancen und auch den Risiken dieser Technologie näher zu beschäftigen. In seinem neuen Buch präsentiert Bestsellerautor Martin Ford eine beeindruckende Vision unserer Zukunft. Klimawandel, die nächste Pandemie, Energie- und Süßwasserknappheit, Armut und mangelnder Zugang zu Bildung - bei all diesen Problemen kann der Einsatz von KI zur Lösung beitragen, in den falschen Händen aber auch tiefgreifenden Schaden anrichten. Ford trennt Hype und Sensationslust von der Realität und entwickelt einen Leitfaden, wie wir alle in der Zukunft, die wir gerade gemeinsam schaffen, erfolgreich sein können.

Die Welt steht vor enormen Umwälzungen, künstliche Intelligenz ist nicht mehr aufzuhalten, sie wird jede Dimension des menschlichen Lebens verändern. Zeit also, sich mit den Folgen, den Chancen und auch den Risiken dieser Technologie näher zu beschäftigen. In seinem neuen Buch präsentiert Bestsellerautor Martin Ford eine beeindruckende Vision unserer Zukunft. Klimawandel, die nächste Pandemie, Energie- und Süßwasserknappheit, Armut und mangelnder Zugang zu Bildung - bei all diesen Problemen kann der Einsatz von KI zur Lösung beitragen, in den falschen Händen aber auch tiefgreifenden Schaden anrichten. Ford trennt Hype und Sensationslust von der Realität und entwickelt einen Leitfaden, wie wir alle in der Zukunft, die wir gerade gemeinsam schaffen, erfolgreich sein können.

Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015'Well researched and disturbingly persuasive.' Financial TimesIntelligent algorithms are already well on their way to making white collar jobs obsolete: travel agents, data-analysts, and paralegals are currently in the firing line. In the near future, doctors, taxi-drivers and ironically even computer programmers are poised to be replaced by 'robots'. Without a radical reassessment of our economic and political structures, we risk the very implosion of the capitalist economy itself.In The Rise of the Robots, technology expert Martin Ford systematically outlines the achievements of artificial intelligence and uses a wealth of economic data to illustrate the terrifying societal implications. From health and education to finance and technology, his warning is stark - all jobs that are on some level routine are likely to eventually be automated, resulting in the death of traditional careers and a hollowed-out middle class. The robots are coming and we have to decide - now - whether the future will bring prosperity or catastrophe.

The New York Times–bestselling author of Rise of the Robots shows what happens as AI takes over our lives <BR><BR>If you have a smartphone, you have AI in your pocket. AI is impossible to avoid online. And it has already changed everything from how doctors diagnose disease to how you interact with friends or read the news. But in Rule of the Robots, Martin Ford argues that the true revolution is yet to come. <BR><BR>In this sequel to his prescient New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots, Ford presents us with a striking vision of the very near future. He argues that AI is a uniquely powerful technology that is altering every dimension of human life, often for the better. For example, advanced science is being done by machines, solving devilish problems in molecular biology that humans could not, and AI can help us fight climate change or the next pandemic. It also has a capacity for profound harm. Deep fakes—AI-generated audio or video of events that never happened—are poised to cause havoc throughout society. AI empowers authoritarian regimes like China with unprecedented mechanisms for social control. And AI can be deeply biased, learning bigoted attitudes from us and perpetuating them. <BR><BR>In short, this is not a technology to simply embrace, or let others worry about. The machines are coming, and they won’t stop, and each of us needs to know what that means if we are to thrive in the twenty-first century. And Rule of the Robots is the essential guide to all of it: both AI and the future of our economy, our politics, our lives. <BR> 

Bestselling author Martin Ford talks to a hall-of-fame list of the world's top AI experts, delving into the future of AI, its impact on society and the issues we should be genuinely concerned about as the field advances. This is the hardcover edition of the book.Key Features:Interviews with AI leaders and practitionersA snapshot of the current state of AI, where it is headed and how it will impact societyVoices from across AI and the scientific communityBook Description:How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances?Architects of Intelligence contains a series of in-depth, one-to-one interviews where New York Times bestselling author, Martin Ford, uncovers the truth behind these questions from some of the brightest minds in the Artificial Intelligence community.Martin has wide-ranging conversations with twenty-three of the world's foremost researchers and entrepreneurs working in AI and robotics: Demis Hassabis (DeepMind), Ray Kurzweil (Google), Geoffrey Hinton (Univ. of Toronto and Google), Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics), Yann LeCun (Facebook) , Fei-Fei Li (Stanford and Google), Yoshua Bengio (Univ. of Montreal), Andrew Ng (AI Fund), Daphne Koller (Stanford), Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley), Nick Bostrom (Univ. of Oxford), Barbara Grosz (Harvard), David Ferrucci (Elemental Cognition), James Manyika (McKinsey), Judea Pearl (UCLA), Josh Tenenbaum (MIT), Rana el Kaliouby (Affectiva), Daniela Rus (MIT), Jeff Dean (Google), Cynthia Breazeal (MIT), Oren Etzioni (Allen Institute for AI), Gary Marcus (NYU), and Bryan Johnson (Kernel).Martin Ford is a prominent futurist, and author of Financial Times Business Book of the Year, Rise of the Robots. He speaks at conferences and companies around the world on what AI and automation might mean for the future.This is the hardcover edition of the book.What You Will Learn:The state of modern AIHow AI will evolve and the breakthroughs we can expectInsights into the minds of AI founders and leadersHow and when we will achieve human-level AIThe impact and risks associated with AI and its impact on society and the economyWho this book is for:Anybody with an interest in artificial intelligence and the role it will play in the future of human life and work will find this a fascinating read. The discussions here are not only of interest to scientists and technologists, but to the wider reading public.

Sono tra noi. Forse non avranno le fisionomie umanoidi sognate da Asimov o le inquietanti capacità rigenerative dei cyborg di Terminator, e nemmeno la volontà di potenza delle macchine di Matrix, ma i robot sono oggi una realtà: l¿innovazione tecnologica ci ha permesso di costruire automobili senza conducente, app che traducono segni incomprensibili in frasi di senso compiuto, abitazioni che accendono luci e riscaldamento a nostro comando. E questo è niente in confronto alle rivoluzioni che altri dispositivi, ancora più sofisticati, stanno mettendo in atto. Martin Ford ci guida all¿interno delle implicazioni presenti e future dell¿evoluzione dell¿intelligenza artificiale: dalla completa automazione di ristoranti e supermercati alla fabbricazione di armi capaci di uccidere senza intervento umano; dai robot disinfettanti in grado di eliminare ogni batterio da una camera d¿ospedale agli algoritmi impiegati nella selezione del personale (che hanno imparato da noi a discriminare in base a genere ed etnia); dalle scoperte in ambito chimico, sanitario ed energetico rese possibili dal deep learning ai raffinati sistemi di riconoscimento facciale utilizzabili dai governi per identificare gli oppositori politici; fino alla chimera dell¿AGI, l¿«intelligenza artificiale generale» che, se realizzata, permetterebbe a una macchina di comunicare, ragionare e concepire idee al livello di un essere umano o addirittura superiore. ¿Il dominio dei robot¿ è un¿affascinante narrazione scientifica che, alternando esperienze personali dell¿autore, interviste a specialisti del settore e i dati delle più recenti ricerche, ci rivela il panorama delle trasformazioni economiche e sociali che affronteremo nei prossimi anni. Una riflessione illuminante, per capire se quello che abbiamo davanti è l¿inizio di una nuova era o la fine della nostra. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.