This book is about 10 stories that happened in society in 2042 under the huge impact of the rapid development of AI. It is the author Kaifu Lee's prediction of the future life of mankind.
This story tells the story of an AI insurance company that reduces the probability of illness and accidents by encouraging customers to improve their behavioral habits, and uses the customer's data interface to confirm whether the customer's behavioral habits have changed, thereby increasing or reducing the customer's premium.
, and provides real-time feedback to customers through AI. For example, after the protagonist Nayana’s father intuitively saw the changes in premium figures, he became more aware of cherishing his life, gave up cigarettes, and restrained his driving style.
In this way, the insurance company reduces the probability of insurance claims and at the same time uses part of the profits to reduce customers' premiums. The win-win business idea is amazing.
But this story also reflects the shortcomings of AI. The single objective function makes AI only want to help people reduce insurance premiums, but in some scenarios it hinders people from achieving happiness.
The protagonist Nayana falls in love with the "untouchable" boy Saheji, who is the lowest class in India. AI predicts that the closer the protagonist gets to Saheji, the more vulnerable he will be to the slums where crime and disease are frequent.
Therefore, whenever the protagonist and Sahejie have further development, the insurance premiums will rise, which expresses the prevention of the protagonist's behavior. Of course, in the end, the protagonist also sees clearly the flaws of AI.
Bravely walked towards Sahej.
This story is about AI empowering education. Every child in the orphanage has an AI teacher. Wearing XR glasses can see the AI ??teacher created by himself. With powerful NLP technology, the AI ??teacher can
Difficulty communicating with children.
The twin brother Jinque has a lively and competitive personality. The AI ??teacher uses competitive games through adaptive algorithms to mobilize Jinque’s initiative in learning. Whenever Jinque completes a task, his AI teacher Atoman will flash colorful lights and make gear rotation.
’s voice, this is Jinque’s favorite cool robot.
The twin brother Yinque is silent and introverted. The diagnosis and treatment AI diagnoses him with an 83.14% probability of Asperger's syndrome. Yinque's AI teacher is Stam "Solaris" who can change into any shape. He often lets
Solaris turns into a bubble and wraps him in it. The sense of security allows him to concentrate on creating art in virtual reality.
The story also explores a heavy topic: parents' deprivation of children's freedom in the name of love.
In front of a successful couple who came to the orphanage to adopt a child, the outgoing and confident Jinque was not unexpectedly chosen. However, later on, Yinque, who was not good at talking but had creativity far beyond his peers, was also appreciated by a special transgender couple.
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After being adopted, the twins with very different personalities lived very different lives.
In the beginning, Yinque still liked to sit in his own corner and let Solaris wrap him up just like he did in the orphanage.
With the full respect of the parents, the virtual bubble gradually expanded, and finally Yinque could crawl, jump, and chase the virtual rabbit generated by Solaris, panting, sweating, and feeling the joy of accelerating heartbeats.
On Jinque's side, his father arranged a very clear career development path for him. Jinque also showed his talents on this road, but slowly he found that he was not happy. Although he was very involved in it,
External expectations and internal drives are not aligned.
What is touching is that in the end Jinque's father also understood that his son tried hard to meet all their expectations, but that was not from his son's heart, and his son was not happy.
Jin Que lost her direction in life and finally met her younger brother Yin Que at the anniversary of the Orphan Academy. The twins' telepathy made Yin Que feel the pain of her brother. Yin Que invited her brother to share the data interface, "We
Like two frogs, each building a well, they can only see a small piece of the sky, but they think it is the whole world. If we open the two wells, they will be the same.
You can see a bigger world. Maybe everything will be different." In the end, the twin brothers turned their feud into friendship is really touching, but I don't know what the author wanted to express.
This story tells the story of AI’s subversion of traditional medical care in the post-epidemic era when epidemics have become the norm.
Under the psychological shadow of her grandparents dying of the new coronavirus, Chen Nan has not left the house for three years. When she learned that her boyfriend Garcia was in critical condition due to the new coronavirus variant because he came to see her, she decided to go out to see her boyfriend.
However, it was difficult to move because there was no biosensor patch on the wrist that could display physiological data and vaccination status. Fortunately, he met Uncle Ma, a black car driver who specializes in transporting vulnerable groups.
Uncle Ma helped Chen Nan get a counterfeit film. Finally, Chen Nan broke through the difficulties and met her boyfriend Garcia, only to find that Garcia was not seriously ill. All this was a game designed to help Chen Nan heal her psychological shadow.
This story is about L5 level autonomous driving and intelligent transportation. The driverless car can be accurately dispatched according to the location and speed of the taxi driver, and stop at the same time according to the taxi driver's pace, without wasting a second.
While driving, suddenly all the vehicles, like well-trained soldiers, staggered to both sides of the road in an orderly manner, opening up a new lane to make way for the ambulance.