People who have read "Out of Control", "Inevitable", "The Age of Big Data", "The Emotion Machine", "Top of the Wave", etc., will not find the ideas in Dr. Wu Jun's new book "The Age of Intelligence" unfamiliar, which are all predicting what the world will become in the future, and what preparations should be made in order to adapt to the society better. To put it simply, the core ideas of these books are as follows:

1. The world is changing, the future is uncertain, and it is not possible to predict what will happen in the future, and the world is in flux.

2. The impact of AI on the world will exceed the impact of the two industrial revolutions in history and the information revolution standardized by Moore's Law. Existing industry + machine intelligence, will certainly sway the direction of all industries and the fate of all mankind in the next 30 years.

Kevin Kelly's work is more theoretical and reflective, while Dr. Wu Jun's work is more case-based and practical, and I personally think the most touching part of this book is the sixth and seventh chapters, which describes how to use big data and machine intelligence to upgrade the traditional industries that used to rely on the human brain (e.g., agriculture, manufacturing, sports, healthcare, legal services, and even journalism and editing), with practical cases. and even journalists and editors), while Chapter 7 uses historical facts and data analysis to clearly point out that every revolution brings a huge impact on society, and it takes more than half a century to absorb the side effects at the expense of the well-being of one or two generations. The side effects of the information revolution have not yet been fully digested, and the mechanical intelligence revolution is coming again, so this time the blow will be more heavy and far-reaching, only 2% of the people can benefit from it, and the other 98%, will face the sad fate of being eliminated.

Turing suggested in 1950 that a computer is intelligent if it achieves one of the following things: 1. speech recognition 2. machine translation 3. automatic summarization and writing of text 4. victory over a human chess champion 5. automatic answers to questions. In just 65 years, computers have not only exceeded the above tasks, but also mechanical intelligence supported by powerful computing power is advancing day by day.

So how do you squeeze into that 2%? If you're in a related industry or have related skills, you'll be able to run down the road without any distractions. But what about the majority of people who aren't in the industry and don't have the relevant skills? Only to join the tide of machine intelligence, change the mind, the courage to try, positive change, there is no other way.

So what to do? Take a look at this book to know, hehehe.