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4.0 AVERAGE
4.0 AVERAGE
I didn’t like this. However, I don’t think I was the audience. It’s too close to an academic book without the quality of being properly supported or academic. At best it’s a book that raises questions and might reshape how people think about a part of an issue.
I guess I must have been expecting too much, but the book is titled "21 lessons for the 21st Century" but I felt that was not the case. It's more a set of articles (maybe because he compiled it from his articles) and the general idea seems to be that the world is too complicated and that complexity is accelerating. The lesson being we should recognize and accept that we cannot understand everything and that meditation and mindfulness is a path to accept/reconcile this.
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Whilst a thought provoking summary of many of humanity's greatest threats, I worry that Harari is presenting as fact opinions on topics that they have seemingly limited understanding of. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are *not* the harbingers of the apocalypse Harari so claims. Yes, General Artificial Intelligence may pose a threat in the future, but this would be a far future at best. As a scientist with regular exposure to the world of Artificial Intelligence, I can firmly conclude that the claims of "intellectual superiority" by AI made by Harari are, at best, completely misguided. AI has fragile Intelligence, specific to one task for each algorithm, and arguably has no real form of cognition or Intelligence. Indeed, AI in both abstract and symbolic forms are incapable of true understanding of the world as we, the human creators, have yet to fully understand what defines Intelligence. Without this definition, it is not an attribute we can hope to impart, measure, or claim to understand.
This is a review from only the portion of the book I have read so far. I will update on further reading.
This is a review from only the portion of the book I have read so far. I will update on further reading.
challenging
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One of the great minds of the 21st century offering a whole meal of advice for the problems of misunderstanding that homo sapiens have currently. Would highly recommend!
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I love this author and all of his insightful, thought-provoking books. He provides so much intensity and historical, cultural, political, religious, philosophical, and anthropological context into his work, while somehow keeping things interesting and digestible. I wish this book could be required reading for every citizen of the world.
Not as good as his others, but still a valuable use of time.
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informative
medium-paced