754 - Kai-Fu Lee (Part 1): AI 2041, Ten Visions for Our Future

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🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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How will AI evolve in the future? Can AI replace humans in the future? How much do we really understand AI? In this episode (Part 1 of 2), my long-time friend, Kai-Fu Lee, computer scientist, businessman, and writer came on to The James Altucher Show to talk about his new book, AI 2041, Ten Visions for Our Future. Such an amazing book about the future of AI. Unlike all the other AI books out there, he forecasts the future of AI in an imaginative storytelling way! Listen to this Part 1 out of 2, and Part 2 will come out the same day too! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.8	This is the James Altiger show.
0:12.7	So Kai-Fu, I so much enjoyed this AI2041.
0:15.3	What a brilliant idea of basically taking a well-known science fiction author, Chen Kifan.
0:22.5	Is that how you say his name?
0:23.8	Kifan.
0:24.8	Chufan.
0:25.8	And off our waste tide.
0:27.7	I feel like there's been in the past 10 years, 15 years.
0:31.2	Maybe it's just the translations have been happening, but there's this huge wave of brilliant
0:36.8	science fiction written in China lately.
0:40.2	And I don't even know if people know.
0:42.4	Movies like Arrival were originally, I think that was a Ken Lou story.
0:46.9	So you decided to go this route of not just examining AI from this academic point of
0:52.6	you. And of course, I've known you for a long time here in AI genius in every possible way.
0:57.8	But you didn't just write some boring textbook.
1:00.5	You took all these very interesting questions about how AI could change the near future.
1:07.1	You took a great science fiction writer, joined forces with them and he basically wrote
1:11.5	up these scenarios and gave them life and gave the characters life.
1:15.6	They're beautiful stories.
1:16.8	Well written and well done with it.
1:18.9	It's a page turning book as a science fiction collection of stories, but it also raises
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