Tác Giả Amy Webb

The Big Nine: How The Tech Titans And Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head.

We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we -- the everyday people whose data powers AI -- aren't actually in control of anything. When, for example, we speak with Alexa, we contribute that data to a system we can't see and have no input into -- one largely free from regulation or oversight. The big nine corporations -- Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple--are the new gods of AI and are short-changing our futures to reap immediate financial gain.

In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI -- the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself -- is broken. Within our lifetimes, AI will, by design, begin to behave unpredictably, thinking and acting in ways which defy human logic. The big nine corporations may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity.

Much more than a passionate, human-centered call-to-arms, this book delivers a strategy for changing course, and provides a path for liberating us from algorithmic decision-makers and powerful corporations.

The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream

Amy Webb is a noted futurist who combines curiosity, skepticism, colorful storytelling, and deeply reported, real-world analysis in this essential book for understanding the future. The Signals Are Talking reveals a systemic way of evaluating new ideas bubbling up on the horizon-distinguishing what is a real trend from the merely trendy. This book helps us hear which signals are talking sense, and which are simply nonsense, so that we might know today what developments-especially those seemingly random ideas at the fringe as they converge and begin to move toward the mainstream-that have long-term consequence for tomorrow.

With the methodology developed in The Signals Are Talking, we learn how to think like a futurist and answer vitally important questions: How will a technology-like artificial intelligence, machine learning, self-driving cars, biohacking, bots, and the Internet of Things-affect us personally? How will it impact our businesses and workplaces? How will it eventually change the way we live, work, play, and think-and how should we prepare for it now?

Most importantly, Webb persuasively shows that the future isn't something that happens to us passively. Instead, she allows us to see ahead so that we may forecast what's to come-challenging us to create our own preferred futures.

The big nine là một cuốn sách giàu kiến thức, đưa ra những dự đoán táo bạo về tương lai của AI. Tác giả đã gạt bỏ những yếu tố giật gân sang một bên, nhường chỗ cho luận điểm khoa học, bối cảnh lịch sử sâu sắc, và mức độ hợp lý đến khó tin. Cuốn sách dễ đọc, dễ liên tưởng, thể hiện vốn kiến thức sâu rộng của tác giả về ngành khoa học thúc đẩy công nghệ AI và tình hình địa chính trị căng thẳng có thể xảy ra giữa Hoa Kỳ và Trung Quốc nói riêng. Tác giả cung cấp những hiểu biết sâu sắc về cách AI tái định hình các ngành kinh tế và trật tự thế giới hiện tại của con người, và cô cũng vạch ra kế hoạch chi tiết để giúp nhân loại vươn tới lộ trình phát triển tốt đẹp hơn.