Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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So he decided to set aside his doctoral dissertation and belatedly prepare for medical school, which “would allow me a chance to find answers that are not in books, to find a different sort of sublime, to forge relationships with the suffering, and to keep following the question of what makes human life meaningful, even in the face of death and decay. The author comes off as somewhat antagonistic towards that country, mostly for that reason, but closes the book with the idea that war isn't inevitable. Parts describing inner work of Pentagon in adopting AI, along some general descriptions of current AI strengths and limitations are good. Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming its own separate war fighting domain, cleanly shooting off from the cyber realm.

Brother's perspective on international relations, particularly the nuanced approach to China and technology cooperation, is thought-provoking. This is an excellent book, and if not for a lot of business travel, I would have finished this library book in two weeks or less. You have to have big data to crunch, and he covers who has access and how that is collected and analyzed. When I spotted this on the new book shelf, I seized on what will probably be in my top five reads of the year.I was surprised at the avoidance of science fiction examples, especially when the book considers problems of AI taking over human decision making. The American system is disaggregated and somewhat chaotic, but it attracts the best talent and is capable of radical breakthroughs. he managed to avoid claims that have been falsified by an AI during the time it took to publish the book. Fortune 500 CEOs won’t like Desmond’s message for rewriting the social contract—which is precisely the point. Scharre provides a very comprehensive discussion of the political and social implications of Artificial intelligence (AI) from both a domestic and international perspective.

Many of the examples involve generative AI and I think it might be better to define these techniques as advanced predictive analytics. The four components of AI vary in importance not just in terms of how state-of-the-art AI systems are built over time, but also in terms of how incentivized states are to innovate their way beyond them. Scharre does a great job at explaining complex topics in a way that the average reader can understand, as well as underlining the importance of these latest developments.

These are matters requiring systemic reform, which will in turn require Americans to elect officials who will enact that reform. The author's insights extend beyond the technical realm into the political landscape, offering a reasoned assessment of liberal vs.

The first few chapters of the book are spot on, what is AI, where did it come from, where is it going and how does one measure it - all fundamental to the subsequent chapters. Otherwise, Four Battlegrounds is a fantastic, oftentimes terrifying exploration of what is going on in the world of artificial intelligence. His work, influenced by mentor Jack Ring, emphasizes the limitations of human speed in operating at machine paces, and how cognitive tech is instrumental in achieving the necessary coordination.Readers knowledgeable about computer science will find it clarifying, while others will gain immense understanding of an often opaque if important subject.

He outlined a scary Orwellian piece about how you can't even send WeChat payments that use the dates of the Tiananmen Massacre in them. But he keeps those biases separate enough from his military analysis that I don't find those biases to be a reason for not reading the book. China technological decoupling is an unavoidable risk for MENA states, triggering, as Mohammed Soliman observes, “a growing digital divide” between a subregion of Gulf states, North African economies, and the Levant “that exacerbates the challenges of finding a digitally capable workforce. Most of those concerns assume a moderate degree of competence in the US military's efforts to adopt AI.Surprisingly, he argues that we're not in an AI arms race yet because no government is spending unusually high amounts on the technology; it's a bit counterintuitive, but worth thinking through.