Science Fiction Writer - Can You Write a Science Fiction Book?

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cyphu: Why approach it with a fiction writer? Because i've met so many people who tell me they're intimidated by thea complex, rocket science mass behind a i. So i reached out to my friend chovan and said, he you've now become a science fiction writer. You've written best selling science fiction books. How about we work together on this book? He quickly agreed. And then we moved on to a riter book. I think a ii such an important technology that everybody should understand,. The gap between ai and their understanding is just some one who can tell it in an interesting, engaging and maybe even entertaining way.

Kai-Fu Lee is one of the world’s leading AI experts and a bestselling author. He founded Microsoft Asia’s research lab that has trained CTOs and AI heads at Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba and Huawei. As President of Google China he helped establish the company in the Chinese market. And now, as CEO of Sinovation Ventures, he is investing in China’s high-tech sector, giving him a unique perspective on how AI is set to change our world over the next 20 years. On September 22 Lee came to Intelligence Squared to explain how AI is at an inflection point and urged us to wake up to its radiant possibilities as well as to the existential threats it poses to life as we know it. In conversation with Kamal Ahmed, former Editorial Director of the BBC, he discussed his new work of ‘scientific fiction’, AI 2041, co-authored with the celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan. The book offers up eye-opening scenarios of our techno-future – from a teenage girl’s rebellion when AI gets in the way of romance to a rogue quantum computer scientist’s revenge plot that imperils the world. To buy his new book AI 2041 with the Intelligence Squared discount click here: https://www.primrosehillbooks.com/product/ai-2041-ten-visions-for-our-future-kai-fu-lee-chen-qiufan/

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