In 2020, I published The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence: Including Machine Learning, Deep Learning, IoT, Data Science, Robotics, The Future of Jobs, Required Upskilling and Intelligent Industries. At the time, Artificial Intelligence was still essentially a topic for tech enthusiasts, researchers, and forward-thinking business leaders. The general public had little awareness of how profoundly AI would soon reshape our world.
I wrote this book drawing from over 26 years of experience working with global organisations, including Microsoft, Nokia, Capgemini, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). My goal was simple: to create a “one-stop shop” that would help business decision-makers, IT professionals, and curious minds understand Artificial Intelligence without needing to write a single line of code.
The book covers Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Internet of Things, Data Science, Robotics, and most importantly, the future of jobs and the upskilling required to thrive in an AI-driven world.
The Book’s Reception
I am humbled by the response this book has received. It has earned consistently high ratings of approximately 4.8 out of 5 stars across platforms, including Goodreads and Amazon. According to Google Scholar, the book has accumulated 10 academic citations, a meaningful achievement for a practitioner-focused guide, indicating that researchers and academics have found genuine value in its insights.
Written Before ChatGPT Changed Everything
Here is what makes this book significant today: it was published in 2020, a full two years before ChatGPT launched in November 2022 and brought AI into mainstream consciousness.
When OpenAI released ChatGPT, the world was caught off guard. Suddenly, everyone was talking about AI. But for those of us who had been studying and working with these technologies, the revolution was not a surprise. It was an inevitability.
The quotes you will read below are not hindsight. They have foresight. These words were written when most people still thought of AI as science fiction, robots in movies, and self-driving cars in the distant future. Today, every single prediction is either already reality or actively unfolding before our eyes.
24 Visionary Predictions: Quotes from the Book (Author Enamul Haque quotes on AI)
Here are remarkable predictions carefully picked from The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence: all written before ChatGPT existed:
On Superintelligence and What Makes Us Human
“The algorithms of superintelligence will change the world in a positive way, but trouncing human being will not be possible due to emotions, empathy, social interactions, reproduction, and mortality which are the qualities that belong to humans only.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 226
On AI Freeing Human Potential
“We believe that the human mind is the most beautiful creation and that doing repetitive daily tasks is probably a waste of our talents. The human brain should focus on things that require more creativity, are more rewarding, and improve our world. So AI can help us achieve this vision by taking away repetitive tasks from us.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 2
On the End of Screens
“Soon we will not need screens anymore – we will talk to Siri or Alexa.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 213
On Repetitive Jobs Disappearing
“All forms of repetitive jobs will disappear due to AI. From chatbots that solve customer service issues, to more complex tasks such as scheduling services… AI simply frees up more time for humans to be creative and innovative.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 213
On AI’s Impact Matching the Industrial Revolution
“AI will have the same impact on the digital revolution that electricity had for the industrial revolution. As humans, we will move away from many of the administrative tasks that today take up a lot of our time and instead operate in a world where we have a robot that delivers.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 214
On AI as the Last Human Invention
“It has been said that human intelligence, or smarter Artificial Intelligence, is the last invention that humans need to make. Artificial Intelligence is much faster than humans in processing data and never needs a break. So, if Artificial Intelligence is as smart as humans, it can already develop itself better and probably much faster than humans can.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 237
On the Black Box Problem
“Even today, it is virtually impossible for many artificial bits of intelligence to understand exactly why the machine mind behaves exactly as it does. The main reason is that too many variables and information are used to make an AI decision.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 237
On AI Knowing Everything About Us
“The incoming Internet of Things means that virtually all devices and machines are connected to a single network and can potentially be controlled by Artificial Intelligence in the future. More and more information is also being collected and stored about each person, which is also potentially available to Artificial Intelligence. The result is a situation where Artificial Intelligence can theoretically know everything about us and control every aspect of our lives.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 238
On the Emergence of AGI
“Personally, I believe we will see the emergence of AGI in the next 50 years, as the hardware has moved up to the level of theory, and more organisations see potential in AI.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 238
On Robots as Team Members
“A significant shift we have in front of us is to move away from using software to working with robots as team members. We talk about everything from being part of a project team to being an operations and maintenance partner. Or, as Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma said, maybe even a future CEO?”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 214
On AI Revolutionising Quality of Life
“AI will fundamentally revolutionise our world through everything from smarter energy consumption, smarter healthcare, and more extended health to technology that significantly improves living conditions for developing countries.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 214
On AI as the Most Important Conversation of Our Time
“The rise of AI can potentially transform our future more than any other technology. This book empowers you to understand what may be the most important conversation of our time.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 3
On Cooperation, Not Fear
“In the future, jobs will require more creativity and sociality. It is essential not to be threatened by AI but how its perspective of utilisation could be turned into cooperation.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 233
On Taking AI Ethics Seriously Now
“True artificial intelligence is coming sooner or later, so it’s time for the business world to take AI ethics and security issues seriously. It’s no longer the concern of generations far in the future.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 201
On What AI Cannot Replicate
“AI can do just by acquiring certain information, making decisions, and acting, but there is a big difference between AI and humans in terms of ‘what is the basis for that decision.’ That is the idea, the sensibility, the relationship with others, and the physical that supports it. The human thinking circuit (humanity) that incorporates them intricately is probably too resonant for AI to catch up.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 236
On the Future of Social Systems
“Will the reality in the future be as in the movies and series we have seen? Will we sit and monitor robots that do our former jobs in a world of citizen pay, hubots and robot taxes? Regardless of how, we expect a world where social systems and infrastructure will fundamentally change.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 214
On Children Never Needing Driver’s Licenses
“Just think that children born today will probably never need to get a driver’s license. The labour market will change and shift to the non-digital, and machines today cannot master.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 213
On The Reskilling Imperative
“The IT workforce experiences enormous HR challenges as existing jobs disappear, remaining jobs transform, and new jobs emerge… We have to face the facts – our technical and management personnel currently do not have the skills to succeed. You need to re-educate your workforce continually – invest in self-learning.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 215
On 400-800 Million Workers Displaced
“McKinsey reports that by 2030, automation could displace between 400 million and 800 million workers. Fortunately, organisations are recognising the importance of reskilling their workforce—retraining employees by teaching them new skills.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 216
On Creative Writers Training Chatbots
“Playwrights and screenwriters can find their application in teaching and evolving chatbots: this creative work requires detailed thinking through many possible ways to develop a dialogue with a person. Only a creative person with the skill of text work will be able to accompany the ‘growth’ of a chatbot throughout the entire evolutionary cycle.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 207
On Understanding AI Being Essential
“If you are a business decision-maker, you will require a basic understanding of AI to apply Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to modernise your business. People in successful companies and management teams still do not fully understand what Artificial Intelligence does and how Artificial Intelligence works.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 6
On AI Predicting Customer Behaviour
“Artificial Intelligence can also analyse the level of engagement of individual customers as well as anticipate changes in customer relationships when utilised as a part of a CRM system. Artificial Intelligence can also modify customer paths to ensure the best possible user experience. Wouldn’t it be great to know in advance if your customer is considering switching to a competitor?”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 194
On The Era of Living with AI
“What is clear is that AI is an era of living with AI, not a period of fear. It is important to remember that and improve your skills to survive as a person.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 233
On the Unpredictable Future
“The main problem is that if Artificial Intelligence were to become smarter than humans, we would end up in a situation where people may no longer understand why Artificial Intelligence makes any decisions and what the consequences of those decisions may be for humans… The result is a situation where our ability to predict the future becomes increasingly difficult because the future depends on Artificial Intelligence decisions that we do not understand.”
— Enamul Haque, Book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Page 238
Final Thoughts
These words were not written after witnessing ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any of the generative AI tools that now dominate our conversations. They were written years before, when AI was still largely an abstract concept for most people.
Today, every single prediction is either already reality or actively unfolding before our eyes.
The question is no longer whether AI will transform our world. The question is whether we are prepared for that transformation. Whether we will be the ones shaping the future, or whether we will be shaped by it.
I wrote this book to help people prepare. And I continue to write, teach, and share knowledge because I believe that understanding AI is no longer optional; it is essential.
Get the book: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence
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Enamul Haque is an author, researcher, managing consultant, and Adjunct Professor (AI and Data Science) at Bangladesh Maritime University. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies on digital transformation, Cloud Adoption, and AI-Driven Intelligent Process Automation.
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