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“Highlights the significant disparity between the genuine science of AI and the exaggerated claims surrounding it.” ―John Horgan
“For insights into AI, this book is essential… It illustrates how an overly futuristic admiration for Artificial Intelligence impedes progress, undermining our most valuable asset for any future advancement: our own human intelligence.” ―Peter Thiel
Since the era of Alan Turing, AI advocates have equated artificial intelligence with human thought. Erik Larson, a computer scientist at the forefront of natural language processing, guides us through the AI landscape to demonstrate why this perspective is fundamentally flawed.
AI relies on inductive reasoning, analyzing data sets to forecast outcomes. However, humans do not merely correlate data; we formulate conjectures influenced by context and experience. We still lack a way to program such intuitive reasoning, which is central to common sense. Although futurists claim AI will surpass the abilities of the brightest human minds, Larson illustrates just how distant we are from achieving superintelligence—and what it would require to reach that point.
“Larson expresses concern that we are making two errors simultaneously: devaluing human intelligence while overestimating AI’s potential… Another issue is learned passivity: our propensity to believe that AI will tackle problems, leading us to neglect the nurturing of human creativity.”
―David A. Shaywitz, Wall Street Journal
“Offers a compelling argument that artificial general intelligence—machine intelligence that rivals our own—is beyond the reach of algorithmic machine learning due to the fundamental difference in how humans and machines understand knowledge.”
―Sue Halpern, New York Review of Books
Publisher : Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Publication date : October 11, 2022
Language : English
Print length : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 0674278666
ISBN-13 : 978-0674278660
Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.85 x 8.25 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #109,797 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #94 in Social Aspects of Technology #255 in Artificial Intelligence & Semantics #297 in Cognitive Psychology (Books)
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