The big nine: $$b how the tech titans & their thinking machines could warp humanity
✍ Scribed by Amy Webb
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 217 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 0195374045
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
****A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head.
We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we--the everyday people whose data powers AI--aren't actually in control of anything. When, for example, we speak with Alexa, we contribute that data to a system we can't see and have no input into--one largely free from regulation or oversight. The big nine corporations--Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple--are the new gods of AI and are short-changing our futures to reap immediate financial gain.
In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI--the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself--is broken. Within our lifetimes, AI will, by design,...
✦ Subjects
Artificial intelligence -- Economic aspects