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This book provides an excellent summary of AI and how it works. It's written in a funny and easy going style, with absolutely adorable sketches. Seriously, it's worth reading this for the AI doodles. They made me burst out laughing a few times.
Moreover, as someone with almost no knowledge about AI, I can say confidently that this book manages to be clear and understandable, even if you don't know anything. It gets ideas across without being too technical or using too much professional jargon. The author uses hilarious metaphors and real life examples to highlight important points and it definitely makes it all clear and interesting!
AI is such a buzzword nowadays so I enjoyed receiving more facts on the abilities of AI. Realizing that AI is best when solving narrow problems, that AI develops through mistakes, that AI struggles when seeing the unknown and also doesn't have a long term memory was all new to me.
I found the parts that talked about creativity and AI absolutely fascinating. It's very cool to think about how AI isn't bound by our human thoughts and therefore can go to places and connections we usually don't. Like I'd struggle to think about original cat names but an AI with enough input can just list thousands (and yeah, most won't be relevant but still).
I loved reading about AI shortcuts ("how do I gamble the best? Simply don't gamble"). Of course, it's concerning (like AI assuming there are no diseases because they are rare) but it's neat to think of how far this can go and how AI sees our world differently.
All in all, if you're up for a short, funny and informative book about AI, this is a good read for you.
What I'm taking With Me
• The knowledge of AI very much depends on its data bank. Which makes me feel like we need philosophers and other humanists involved when creating AI for real life applications, you've got to have someone that's thinking about social repercussions, about the ethical implications of representation.
• Companies often claim to use AI but in fact use people because it's cheaper. Combining AI with human help works well, such as advertising bots that redirect complicated questions to human workers.
• Man, I'm just here waiting for AI to come up in a conversation so I can talk about this book.
First Week Uni Adventures
• My Peruvian roommate said that I'm so dramatic, I could be from Latin America. To be fair, she said this after she walked into the room and found me lying on my bed and saying, "math will be the death of me, I'm doomed". But really, math is freaking hard and I am scared.
• People from my degree are so smart and so serious and all of them have so many life goals and I'm just here like, "idk man, I'll probably go back to being a graphic designer after this".
• Econ is so confusing, what the heck
• If one more person tells me I seem like I'm from Tel Aviv, I'm going to cry.
• I need to stop signing up for things and I feel physically unable to because everything is so cool and interesting and I want to do it all.
• Comparative Politics is the best thing ever and I am in love with our professor and really, it's just a wild class.
• A guy in my PPE classes is convinced he saw me in a left wing propaganda video and like, I'd like to be confident enough to say that couldn't be me but I am scared it might be and that I don't know of it.
• My dorm floor is about 50% international students. It's fun because I was considering studying abroad and well, I feel like I'm getting the dorm room experience of studying abroad.
This book provides an excellent summary of AI and how it works. It's written in a funny and easy going style, with absolutely adorable sketches. Seriously, it's worth reading this for the AI doodles. They made me burst out laughing a few times.
Moreover, as someone with almost no knowledge about AI, I can say confidently that this book manages to be clear and understandable, even if you don't know anything. It gets ideas across without being too technical or using too much professional jargon. The author uses hilarious metaphors and real life examples to highlight important points and it definitely makes it all clear and interesting!
AI is such a buzzword nowadays so I enjoyed receiving more facts on the abilities of AI. Realizing that AI is best when solving narrow problems, that AI develops through mistakes, that AI struggles when seeing the unknown and also doesn't have a long term memory was all new to me.
I found the parts that talked about creativity and AI absolutely fascinating. It's very cool to think about how AI isn't bound by our human thoughts and therefore can go to places and connections we usually don't. Like I'd struggle to think about original cat names but an AI with enough input can just list thousands (and yeah, most won't be relevant but still).
I loved reading about AI shortcuts ("how do I gamble the best? Simply don't gamble"). Of course, it's concerning (like AI assuming there are no diseases because they are rare) but it's neat to think of how far this can go and how AI sees our world differently.
All in all, if you're up for a short, funny and informative book about AI, this is a good read for you.
What I'm taking With Me
• The knowledge of AI very much depends on its data bank. Which makes me feel like we need philosophers and other humanists involved when creating AI for real life applications, you've got to have someone that's thinking about social repercussions, about the ethical implications of representation.
• Companies often claim to use AI but in fact use people because it's cheaper. Combining AI with human help works well, such as advertising bots that redirect complicated questions to human workers.
• Man, I'm just here waiting for AI to come up in a conversation so I can talk about this book.
First Week Uni Adventures
• My Peruvian roommate said that I'm so dramatic, I could be from Latin America. To be fair, she said this after she walked into the room and found me lying on my bed and saying, "math will be the death of me, I'm doomed". But really, math is freaking hard and I am scared.
• People from my degree are so smart and so serious and all of them have so many life goals and I'm just here like, "idk man, I'll probably go back to being a graphic designer after this".
• Econ is so confusing, what the heck
• If one more person tells me I seem like I'm from Tel Aviv, I'm going to cry.
• I need to stop signing up for things and I feel physically unable to because everything is so cool and interesting and I want to do it all.
• Comparative Politics is the best thing ever and I am in love with our professor and really, it's just a wild class.
• A guy in my PPE classes is convinced he saw me in a left wing propaganda video and like, I'd like to be confident enough to say that couldn't be me but I am scared it might be and that I don't know of it.
• My dorm floor is about 50% international students. It's fun because I was considering studying abroad and well, I feel like I'm getting the dorm room experience of studying abroad.