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Augmented Mind: AI, Humans and the Superhuman Revolution
We are about to become superhuman. Serial AI entrepreneur Alex Bates explains how the combination of AI with human intelligence -- called Intelligence Augmentation -- has revolutionary potential.
After a decade on the front lines of the AI, facilitating the collaboration of humans an AI, he saw first hand how humans and AI were highly complementary and augment each other; and also how little this was recognized or researched. When his last AI venture was acquired, Bates created a global mastermind network of applied AI technologists and researchers to get more perspectives on these issues, with membership from Caltech, MIT, Harvard, Oxford, UCSD, USC, and other leading institutions and companies.
It became clear that while there has been a global arms race in AI and machine learning, it has been almost exclusively focused on replicating human intelligence. Augmenting human intelligence represents a tiny fraction of the total research and development.
This book explores how augmenting humans, combining human intuition and artificial intelligence, will herald an unprecedented era of productivity and financial success. The coming wave of human centered AI will help us solve the biggest problems facing humanity while also protecting us from rogue or weaponized AI systems.
The Augmented Age represents a massive opportunity not only for AI investors and technologists, but for all humans as it unlocks our unique gifts of intuition and human-centric intelligence for this next era. For all human beings, it offers the chance to harness our intuition and human-centered skills, areas that are not the focus of the current educational system.
Bates includes a framework for creating hybrid solutions combining AI, machine learning, and human intuition that can predict the future, improve our social lives, eliminate scarcity, and provide a clear roadmap to abundance and prosperity in the financial, health, and relationship industries that represents trillions in economic opportunity over the next decade.
After a decade on the front lines of the AI, facilitating the collaboration of humans an AI, he saw first hand how humans and AI were highly complementary and augment each other; and also how little this was recognized or researched. When his last AI venture was acquired, Bates created a global mastermind network of applied AI technologists and researchers to get more perspectives on these issues, with membership from Caltech, MIT, Harvard, Oxford, UCSD, USC, and other leading institutions and companies.
It became clear that while there has been a global arms race in AI and machine learning, it has been almost exclusively focused on replicating human intelligence. Augmenting human intelligence represents a tiny fraction of the total research and development.
This book explores how augmenting humans, combining human intuition and artificial intelligence, will herald an unprecedented era of productivity and financial success. The coming wave of human centered AI will help us solve the biggest problems facing humanity while also protecting us from rogue or weaponized AI systems.
The Augmented Age represents a massive opportunity not only for AI investors and technologists, but for all humans as it unlocks our unique gifts of intuition and human-centric intelligence for this next era. For all human beings, it offers the chance to harness our intuition and human-centered skills, areas that are not the focus of the current educational system.
Bates includes a framework for creating hybrid solutions combining AI, machine learning, and human intuition that can predict the future, improve our social lives, eliminate scarcity, and provide a clear roadmap to abundance and prosperity in the financial, health, and relationship industries that represents trillions in economic opportunity over the next decade.
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203 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 1, 2019
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December 2, 2020
A thoughtful book
I found this book very interesting as it raised questions about Artificial intelligence. It is not to be seem as an adversary, but as.a partner.
I found this book very interesting as it raised questions about Artificial intelligence. It is not to be seem as an adversary, but as.a partner.
December 23, 2019
Not coming from the field of AI, I was concerned that this book would be over my head. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the material, while wide-ranging, is presented clearly enough that I was able to follow both the history and the opportunities for future developments. The author makes a reasonable case for why augmented intelligence should be preferenced over artificial intelligence. Seeing the ways that too much reliance on computer algorithms already wreak havoc on our daily lives, I can only agree.
January 7, 2020
This is a phenomenal book that covered so many subjects about Artificial Intelligence, augmentation, and their potential.
October 3, 2019
What does the author mean by augmented mind? He means artificial intelligence (AI) combined with human intelligence. The author thinks that we should be looking at making human and machine into a hybrid rather than building robots. This an oversimplification of my understanding of an augmented mind. I think there is potential with this idea but still hesitate due to my lack of understanding how it would be controlled by the human then the AI. The author does gives examples of how it could work.
I am fascinated with the idea of an augmented mind. I would like to understand it a little bit better than I do. However, I don’t think that is the author’s fault. His writing is excellent. I will be thinking about this explanation as I go through my daily life.
Disclaimer: I received an arc of this book from the author/publisher from Netgalley. I wasn’t obligated to write a favorable review or any review at all. The opinions expressed are strictly my own.
I am fascinated with the idea of an augmented mind. I would like to understand it a little bit better than I do. However, I don’t think that is the author’s fault. His writing is excellent. I will be thinking about this explanation as I go through my daily life.
Disclaimer: I received an arc of this book from the author/publisher from Netgalley. I wasn’t obligated to write a favorable review or any review at all. The opinions expressed are strictly my own.
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