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The Coming Wave

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The Coming Wave

By: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar
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This is the only book you need to understand our new world – from the ultimate AI insider, the CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind.

Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. In a world of quantum computers, robot assistants and abundant energy, they will organise your life, operate your business, and run government services.

None of us are prepared.

Mustafa Suleyman has been at the centre of this revolution. The next decade, he explains, will be defined by a wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies. These will create immense prosperity but also present risks.

How do we ensure the flourishing of humankind? How do we maintain control over these technologies? And how do we find the narrow path to a successful future? In this groundbreaking book we learn how to think about the essential challenge of our age.

Be prepared. Read The Coming Wave.


'If you want to understand the rise of AI, this is the best book to read' BILL GATES
'Important' YUVAL NOAH HARARI
'Astonishing' STEPHEN FRY
'Stunning' RORY STEWART


*An Economist, Financial Times, Guardian, Prospect and Sunday Times Book of the Year*
Shortlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year

©2023 Michael Bhaskar & Mustafa Suleyman (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Critics' reviews

Heartfelt and candid … a serious exploration of what the future might hold for us all
Thoughtful and persuasive
Confused by the current furore about AI? This book is a good place to start… The Coming Wave is a sweeping account of the latest advances in AI and synthetic biology
A cogent look at the technology’s potential to transform the economy and society, along with the risks of misuse and surveillance
The rise of AI has led to a rise in books about AI, among the most insightful of which is The Coming Wave
Unusually thoughtful, expansive, historically rooted and engagingly written
A genuinely mind-boggling read, setting out the ineluctable forces soon to completely transform politics, society and even the fabric of life itself over the next decade or two
Deeply rewarding and consistently astonishing
A fascinating, well-written and important book
A stunning book by a man at the very centre of the AI revolution - realistic, tough-minded [and] charting a meaningful course between AI catastrophe and dystopia
All stars
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Learned more from Kate Crawford’s or Stuart Russell’s books. Bit generic for such an industry expert. Expected more depth

Meh

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On point and well described - as scary as motivating at the same time. Must read.

Breathtaking! Must read to be prepared for the coming wave.

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fantastic book from a very knowledgeable person in the industry! can highly recommend this. hopefully he writes more books about this subject

material is still very much up to date for the coming years but probably not for too long

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Dieses Buch gibt einem interessierten Hörer die Möglichkeit, ungewohnte Einblicke in eine Branche zu werfen, die wahrscheinlich wirklich in den nächsten Jahrzehnten ziemlich vieles für ziemlich viel um krempeln wird.
Selbstverständlich ist der Autor in gewissen Maße befangen doch ich hatte sowohl in Interviews als auch in diesem Buch das Gefühl einer gewissen Aufrichtigkeit.
Ich kann es wirklich sehr empfehlen!

Wow - interessanter Blick hinter die Kulissen

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Zu oberflächlich und all over the place. Hatte mehr über AI erwartet, da Autor in eigenen Worten immer wieder seine Erfahrung als Gründer und Erschaffer von AI betont.

Es gab ein paar wenige Ideen die beim Hören interessant klangen, aber so belanglos allgemein sind.

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