"Originally published in hardcover and in slightly different form in the United States by Crown Currency ... in 2021"--Title page verso

"Long before the advent of ChatGPT, Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan understood the enormous potential of artificial intelligence to transform our daily lives. But even as the world wakes up to the power of AI, many of us still fail to grasp the big picture. Chatbots and large language models are only the beginning. In this "inspired collaboration" (The Wall Street Journal), Lee and Chen join forces to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping, globe-spanning short stories and accompanying commentary, their book introduces readers to an array of eye-opening settings and characters grappling with the new abundance and potential harms of AI technologies like deep learning, mixed reality, robotics, artificial general intelligence, and autonomous weapons."--

"The stories in this book are a work of fiction"--Title page verso

Includes index

Foreword for the paperback edition: The age of AI 2.0 has begun -- Introduction by Kai-Fu-Lee: The real story of AI -- Introduction by Chen Qiufan: How we can learn to stop worrying and embrace the future with imagination -- The golden elephant; Analysis: Deep learning, big data, internet/finance applications, AI externalities -- Gods behind the masks; Analysis: Computer vision, convolutional neural networks, deepfakes, generative adversarial networks (GANs), biometrics, AI security -- Twin sparrows; Analysis: natural language processing, self-supervised training, GPT-3, AGI and consciousness, AI education -- Contactless love; Analysis: AI healthcare, alphafold, robotic applications, Covid automation acceleration -- My haunting idol; Analysis: virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR), brain-computer interface (BCI), ethical and societal issues -- The holy driver; Analysis: Autonomous vehicles, full autonomy and smart cities, ethical and social issues -- Quantum genocide; Analysis: Quantum computers, Bitcoin security, autonomous weapons and existential threat -- The job savior; Analysis: AI job displacement, universal basic income (UBI), what AI cannot do, 3Rs as a solution to displacement -- Isle of happiness; Analysis: AI and happiness, general data protection regulation (GDPR), personal data, privacy computing using federated learning and trusted execution environment (TEE) -- Dreaming of plenitude; Analysis: Plenitude, new economic models, the future of money, singularity