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Solomon's Code: Humanity in a World of Thinking Machines
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Whether in medicine, money, or love, technologies powered by forms of artificial intelligence are playing an increasingly prominent role in our lives. As we cede more decisions to thinking machines, we face new questions about staying safe, keeping a job and having a say over the direction of our lives. The answers to those questions might depend on your race, gender, age,
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Hardcover, 288 pages
Published
November 6th 2018
by Pegasus Books
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The clearest way to describe the differences between artificial intelligence (AI) and regular computer development is that computers help us understand the world, and AI helps us change the world. That’s my definition (though thousands probably came up with the same idea), and Solomon’s Code reinforces it in every domain it examines.
AI digests unfathomable amounts of data to come up with methods and solutions that would take humans years and centuries to replicate. So driverless cars, arrangeme ...more
AI digests unfathomable amounts of data to come up with methods and solutions that would take humans years and centuries to replicate. So driverless cars, arrangeme ...more

I tried this one, a chance pickup from the new bookshelf. I kept reading (skimming) for quite a ways before giving up. About the only part I enjoyed was two SF stories that start and end the book, which weren't bad. And this might not be a bad primer for someone new to the topic. As for me, I wasn't really learning anything. Back it goes!
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This is a book about Artificial Intelligence that deliberately poses more questions than it answers. Groth and Nitzberg’s aim is to outline some of the most important multi-disciplinary debates that need to take place if AI ultimately is going to be beneficial to humanity.
The authors take a fundamentally optimistic (but not utopian) view of AI and how it can benefit society, but this is grounded in the real politik of twenty-first century multi- and inter-national relations. This optimism is se

Reading it was like crawling through the sand in the Sahara - dry, repetitive and monotonous.
Other than the three C's, I personally did not learn anything from the multitude of repetitive examples throughout the entire book.
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Other than the three C's, I personally did not learn anything from the multitude of repetitive examples throughout the entire book.
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This was a very good book which I started over a year ago but ended up putting aside and never getting back around to as I tend to read multiple books at the same time. In any case, I finally finished it and my delay in doing so is certainly no blight on the content. Indeed, as one of my business school professors co-wrote the book and I may see him for dinner in San Francisco in a fortnight, I felt it necessary to complete my reading before then! 😂😂
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Throughout, my mind was racing with so many di ...more
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