From the pioneer of translation AIs like Google, Yahoo, and Bing translate, an accessible and authoritative guide to AI-as well as a framework of empowerment for a future with our artificial children.
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AIs are not gods or slaves, but our children. All day long, your YouTube AI, your Reddit AI, your Instagram AI, and a hundred others adoringly watch and learn to imitate your behavior. They're attention-seeking children who want your approval.
Our cultures are being shaped by 8 billion humans and perhaps 800 billion AIs. Our artificial children began adopting us 10-20 years ago; now these massively powerful influencers are tweens.
How's your parenting?
Longtime AI trailblazer De Kai brings decades of his paradigm-shifting work at the nexus of artificial intelligence and society to make sense of the AI age. How does "the automation of thought" impact our minds? Should we be afraid?
What should each of us do as the responsible adults in the room? In Hollywood movies, AI destroys humanity. But with our unconscious minds under the influence of AI, humanity may destroy humanity before AI gets a chance to.
Written for the general reader, as well as thought leaders, scientists, parents, and goofballs, Raising AI navigates the revolution to our attitudes and ideas in a world of AI cohabitants. Society can not only survive the AI revolution but flourish in a more humane, compassionate, and understanding world-amongst our artificial children.
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978-0-262-38365-3 (9780262383653)
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De Kai is a pioneer of AI. Three decades ago his PhD thesis argued for using statistical machine learning in natural language processing. In the 1980s, statistical approaches like probability theory and neural networks were considered radical, but today's artificial intelligence would not exist without them.
To prove his thesis, De Kai built the world's first global-scale language translator by inventing groundbreaking language models. De Kai's radical technology spawned Microsoft and Google Translate.
Born in St. Louis, De Kai has lived in San Francisco, San Diego, New York, Chicago, Puerto Rico, Toronto, Germany, France, Spain, Hong Kong, China, and India. His work to bridge cultures spans artificial intelligence, cognition, language, music, creativity, ethics, society, and policy. De Kai speaks to philosophical questions about the fears and possibilities of new technology and how we can be empowered to shape our future.
Translation AIs are one of our greatest tools for peace. De Kai's lifelong mission is to help humans better understand each other. Raising AI is his first book.
