I'm a huge believer in what is being called the senator model of AI which is human plus AI. I did love the way that you resolve that at the end of the story where the AI actually brings them back together but that's also the human part. Think about large language model basically is fed up with all this data set from the language from all this text across internet so what they pick up from our language is actually they can review the invisible bias discrimination violence within our language even we couldn't recognize it consciousness level. All these resume scanning algorithm somehow automatically will reject the female application because they know they got less chance to get through the human parts like the recruitment process. We need more different
Chen Qiufan (AKA Stanley Chan) is an award-winning science fiction writer, screenwriter, creative producer, and columnist. He is the president of the World Chinese Science Fiction Association and the founder of the content development studio Thema Mundi. Chen joins the show to discuss his latest novel,
AI 2041: Ten Visions for the Future, which he co-wrote with former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee. Part science fiction, part science forecasting, over ten short stories
AI 2041 imagines the different ways, good and bad, that AI will impact our society. The central thesis? AI will transform our lives, but we remain masters of our fate. Important Links:
Show Notes:
- Qiufan’s sci-fi influences
- When did the third wave of AI begin?
- Why is modern sci-fi so dystopian?
- How AI is going to impact education
- Hidden biases & the objective function
- Deep fakes & narrative collapse
- Accelerationism, balance & Daoism
- Do we need real jobs?
- Happiness is a byproduct
- Living in a post-scarcity society
- What’s next?
- MORE!
Books Mentioned:
- AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future; by Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan
- Bullshit Jobs: A Theory; by David Graeber
- Tao Te Ching; by Lao Tzu
- Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek; by Manu Saadia
- Waste Tide; by Chen Qiufan