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A review by hank
AIQ: How People and Machines Are Smarter Together by Nick Polson, James Scott
4.0
This a 3 star for non-nerds and possibly a 4 for nerds. Story wise I thought Polson did a good job showing a variety of ways data science and statistics currently impact our lives and some of the future possibilities. The full title is acurately descriptive, this is a book less about AI, although it has some discussion and a ton about data mining, high level statistics and crunching numbers. The true nerds among my vast number of followers will note that, that is all AI is, filtering through data looking for a meaningfull signal. Machine intelligence accomplishes this by extrapolating or substituting different rules than the ones initially supplied.
I enjoy the pieces discussion that fact that although these statistical methods have been around forever, it has only recently that the combination of massive amounts of data and the computing power to deal with it has become available to really make it useful.
The way bias is introduced was also well done.
I don't think this is a recommend to everyone for me, it is a bit dry and he gets lost in the math at times but if you are already interested in the subject I think it is a solid book.
I enjoy the pieces discussion that fact that although these statistical methods have been around forever, it has only recently that the combination of massive amounts of data and the computing power to deal with it has become available to really make it useful.
The way bias is introduced was also well done.
I don't think this is a recommend to everyone for me, it is a bit dry and he gets lost in the math at times but if you are already interested in the subject I think it is a solid book.