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This is a layman’s introduction to how AI works and what it can and cannot do. It’s a really fun read - it’s full of really silly examples of AI’s messing up in hilarious ways (such as an AI that was told to move from point A to point B, and it decided the best way to get there was to make itself as tall as the distance between the two points and then fall over).
The big takeaways for me were (1) that even AI researchers don’t always understand how AI works, and (2) that AI is nowhere near as magical and capable as AI companies would have you think.
AI is already a big part of our daily lives, and is going to continue to be more and more important. It's also important that we understand what AI is and what it can and cannot do - right now a lot of tech companies are making a lot of money by selling us an AI-driven future where everything is easy and computers can solve all of our problems, but this book makes it very (hilariously) clear that an AI-driven future is going to be weird and buggy, and that AI has the potential to be very problematic if not used correctly.