A book that will reveal the present and future of AI (video)

Just five years ago, one of the book's authors almost walked out of a transatlantic conference on artificial intelligence because he found it uninteresting. However, they convinced him to stay, and that led to the idea of writing the book.

In an effort to address the Vietnam War, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Google CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt, and the first dean of MIT's Schwarzman College of Computing, Daniel Huttenlocker, jointly created the book "The Age of AI: And Our Human Future".

AI promises epoch-making changes in society, the economy, and both domestic and foreign policy, but at the moment, no one can say what will happen next. This is precisely what the authors analyzed, contemplated, and wrote about.

The book explains what artificial intelligence is, outlines expected innovations in healthcare, biology, space exploration, and quantum physics, and discusses the changes that may occur in human relationships and even in child-rearing.

Mankind has always dreamed of an assistant— a machine capable of performing tasks just like a human. As machines increasingly take on tasks previously done only by humans, we must ask: what will define our identity as human beings?

Humans have traditionally viewed themselves as the central figures in existence. We are now entering an era where we are increasingly entrusting one of our own creations—artificial intelligence—with tasks that we used to perform ourselves.

The results generated by AI often exceed those of human intelligence, calling into question what it means to be human. Moreover, AI has the ability to learn and evolve, enabling it to perform complex tasks that until now only humans could accomplish.