Mo Gawdat
Autor(a) de Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
About the Author
Mo Gawdat is the Chief Business Officer at Google's [X]. In the past ten years he has made happiness his primary topic of research, diving deeply into literature and conversing on the topic with thousands of people in more than a hundred countries. He is also a serial entrepreneur who has cofounded mostrar mais more than twenty businesses. He speaks Arabic, English, and German. In 2014, motivated by the tragic loss of his son, Ali, Mo began pouring his findings into his first book, Solve for Happy. Learn more about Solve for Happy's mission at www.solveforhappy.com and www.onebillionhappy.org. mostrar menos
Obras de Mo Gawdat
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
Membros
Resenhas
Reasonably good for most of it then dissolved into a pseudoscience non-proof of the existence of God and support of so-called intelligent design. Without that I'd say the book was a solid 4 but that last but alone would've been a 1.
Great cheerful book
Other than being a book on happiness. This book was a memorial to his late son, Ali. Rest in peace Ali!
Other than being a book on happiness. This book was a memorial to his late son, Ali. Rest in peace Ali!
Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policymakers who claim they can regulate it. This is a book for you. Because, believe it or not, you are the only one that can fix it. – Mo Gawdat
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Membros
- 291
- Popularidade
- #80,411
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Resenhas
- 10
- ISBNs
- 39
- Idiomas
- 8
On the plus side: It is written in a very accessible style. Easy to understand, interesting and compelling. Broken into a "scary" part and a "smart" part, each summarized nicely. The scary part was better -- more logical, more factual.
On the less positive side: The smart part morphed into a personalization of machines with the metaphor of AI as children and everyday people as parents. And the main message was that everything will be okay if we love the machines. Now I felt like I was reading a Disney script. Upon reflection, I understand that the author was trying to say we will get the society we build, and if our interactions through AI are respectful and focused on good (addressing climate change vs. online gambling) we'll have a better world. True, I agree.
The author is on a personal crusade to increase happiness in the world, and this book seems to be a platform for that message at least as much as an examination of the possible implications of AI.… (mais)