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I recommend this book for anyone who wonders why hasn't AI taken over everything yet? This book covers a lot of AI uses and challenges using light-hearted and ridiculous demonstrations, adorable cartoons, and citations from literature.
It's a short and funny. It can be slow as the jokes may be a little repetitive, so you may want to either read bits over a year or all at once.
I especially liked the section on adversarial attacks.
It's a short and funny. It can be slow as the jokes may be a little repetitive, so you may want to either read bits over a year or all at once.
I especially liked the section on adversarial attacks.
Surprisingly good. Given how problematic AIs are so far, Shane does a great job showing what AIs are pretty useful for, terrible for, and the weirdness that make up their more innocent blind spots and the awful biases of humans that make them pretty useless for hard tasks now and in the future. I especially liked how she illustrated that they are a product of their data set: AIs trained on image sets asked to identify a fish will refuse to do so unless they see two hands along the bottom. That's a great way to demonstrate the problem pretty simply - we don't often photograph fish unless we show a fisherman or fisherwoman holding them! How could an AI possibly know that the hands do not make the fish?
In addition, her point that sometimes humans are actually doing the work and that we get just as creeped out to find that out as the opposite shows that the whole field is not quite what it seems, and it is best for us all to understand it better and demand accountability and testing for any AI a company wants to put in place to make any kind of decisions.
In addition, her point that sometimes humans are actually doing the work and that we get just as creeped out to find that out as the opposite shows that the whole field is not quite what it seems, and it is best for us all to understand it better and demand accountability and testing for any AI a company wants to put in place to make any kind of decisions.
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The book was OK. I learned a lot about the current state of Artificial Intelligence and its shortcomings. The author clearly has a lot of experience with AI technology. I read this book as part of the Next Big Idea book club and was hoping I might learn more about the future potential of AI vs. today’s pitfalls. Like many disruptive technologies, AI might seem pathetic now, but with a doubling every year of capabilities, might soon become a formidable force in our world. I would have liked it a bit more if the author had shared her views on where this technology might go in the next five years.
Interesting, funny, informative. This is a great book about a fascinating and important topic. I'd recommend it to pretty much anyone.
Not only is this book eye-wateringly hilarious, it has also managed to teach me a huge amount about a topic I've been intimidated by and aggressively disinterested in. This is the sort of science writing I want to do. Just brilliant.
super interesting, funny, and relevant! at times the audiobook was hard to follow because it's so science-y but overall an important and entertaining read
A wonderful book that is totally giggle-inducing, while teaching us useful and important things about the current state of artificial intelligence and machine learning. As someone who teaches a lot of these concepts at the university level, I could see recommending it to my students, while also giving a copy to a teenage nephew.
So if you ever wanted to know more about self-driving cars, facial recognition software, or the hazards of computer generated recipes, this is a great place to start.
So if you ever wanted to know more about self-driving cars, facial recognition software, or the hazards of computer generated recipes, this is a great place to start.
Hilarious and informative. You do not need to be familiar with this industry to enjoy the book. I read a good portion out loud to the kids and they were laughing along with me.
This books is delightfully funny and whimsical, whilst also being incredibly informative. I had the barest of understanding of AI before reading this and never found myself lost, Shane explains everything clearly and interestingly. I want everyone to read this book tbh