in order for deep learning to function well, the following are required: massive amounts of relevant data, a narrow domain, and a concrete objective function to optimize.

From the modern submarine to the laser gun, and from mobile phones to CRISPR, scientists will readily admit they got direct inspirations from fiction. Imagination indeed shapes the world.

the greatest value of science fiction is not providing answers, but rather raising questions.

with every future we wish to create, we must first learn to imagine it.

Kai-Fu’s analysis serves as the string that connects the soaring kite of imagination to the graspable reel of reality.

Subtle psychological details are difficult to infer through mere logic and rationalization. To help fill in the emotional portrait of the characters in our stories, we looked to history and drew inspiration from similar world-changing events that have occurred in the past. To stimulate our readers’ imagination and capacity to conceptualize

We wished to represent how individuals from disparate cultures and industries and with different identities would react to the future shock induced by AI.

AI, like most technologies, is inherently neither good nor evil.

Historian and bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari has called science fiction “the most important artistic genre” of our time.