The Age of AI Will Force Us to Rethink Work, Love and Humanity

Most of the attention on the relationship between the U.S. and China is about whether or not there will be a trade war, and, more generally, about how each country is trying to displace the other in a zero-sum game to be the world's dominant superpower. But the more important consequence of that relationship is how the two countries have created a duopoly -- as the dominant powers in AI -- which is going to change the world much more dramatically than any trade war has the potential to. It's one of those books you read and think, "Why are people reading any other book right now when this is so clearly the one they need to be reading?" His thesis -- urgent but hopeful -- goes something like this: Work on artificial intelligence has been going on since the 1950s. But in the last 5 or so years, advances have accelerated in deep learning, or what Kai-Fu Lee calls "narrow AI" technology, which can digest huge amounts of data from one particular domain and make decisions much more effectively or accurately than a human can.