A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence
How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control
About the book
Wharton professor and tech entrepreneur Kartik Hosanagar examines how algorithms and artificial intelligence make everyday decisions, from what people buy and where they eat to how they get news, whom they date and how they find jobs, as well as life-and-death calls once left to doctors, pilots and judges. Drawing on his own work designing algorithms, along with history, computer science and psychology, he explains how they work, why they sometimes go rogue, what drives trust in them and the biases they can create. Cases include Microsoft's chatbot Tay, which turned sexist and racist, fatal self-driving car accidents and everyday experiences on Netflix and Amazon. He also points out that algorithms often think much like their creators.
Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani praised it as timely and urged quick action on its proposal for an Algorithmic Bill of Rights, and Tim Draper endorsed it for identifying the growing pains of the shift to AI.
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Tim Draper (Founder/Draper Fisher Jurvetson)
AI is finally here, from guiding us home on Waze, to helping us choose a restaurant, a book or a job. I believe this will launch a Renaissance of human creativity as mundane tasks become handled by AI. Kartik Hosanagar’s excellent book identifies the growing pains we may experience along the way to this new human advancement.
Nandan Nilekani (Co-founder/Infosys)
As we negotiate the uneasy interactions between man and the intelligent machine, Kartik Hosanagar’s important and very timely book, helps us to understand a world increasingly dominated by often opaque algorithms that take more and more decisions in our lives. His proposal for an Algorithmic Bill of Rights needs to be acted on at the earliest!
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