Smart until It’s Dumb
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Artificial intelligence is everywhere—powering news feeds, curating search results, and invisibly steering our lives. We talk to it and, increasingly, it talks back. And sometimes, its answers seem eerily smart, until they don't.
Billions of dollars have been poured into AI, yet it keeps surprising us with its epic fails—confidently wrong chatbots, inadvertently racist photo apps, well-meaning autonomous cars that fail to recognize traffic cones. Industry insider Emmanuel Maggiori cuts through the hype, revealing the deceptively simple mechanisms behind AI’s impressive results—and its spectacular blunders.
Learn the dark secret of the AI industry—how unreasonable expectations, shady practices, and outright lying have inflated a bubble of monumental proportions.
Listen to Smart until It’s Dumb to discover how AI really works, why it’s not always so smart, and why the AI bubble is about to burst. Emmanuel Maggiori, PhD, is a 10-year AI industry insider, specialized in machine learning and scientific computing. He helps companies build complex software. He has developed AI for a wide variety of applications, from extracting objects from satellite images to packaging holiday deals for millions of travelers every day.
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- James Burkill
- 12-04-24
A voice of reason in a sea of exuberant hype
Highly recommend this book as a tool to cut through the AI hype that has taken hold of researchers, businesses and investors.
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- Slubberd
- 29-06-24
Excellent
Short of whistle blowing the incredible hubris of tech companies - this is the next best thing. Money instead of invention has taken over as always and if we could just get these people into check - maybe we could develop AI as a real tool. Like the author I fear this won't happen and it will be deployed without consideration or care.
Also nice to hear from a data scientist that the general idea it will becone sentient is absolute guff.
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- Colin H
- 02-11-24
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This is a much-needed antidote to the absurd levels of hype that have surrounded AI for the past couple of years. It's not an attack on AI but rather a level-headed assessment of what it can and can't do from an author who has practical experience in the field. With plenty of examples and accessible explanations, they do a great job of exposing the truth about AI. I especially enjoyed hearing about the ways in which even AI researchers can be guilty of inflating what their research actually proves. A 92% success rate in detecting dementia using AI is a lot less impressive when you have it pointed out to you - as the author does - that dementia occurs in roughly 1 in 10 people, meaning you could simply predict "no" and be right... 90% of the time. I really recommend giving this a listen, you'll be glad you did.
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