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The AI Delusion

Gary Smith

Author : Gary Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780192557803

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We live in an incredible period in history. The Computer Revolution may be even more life-changing than the Industrial Revolution. We can do things with computers that could never be done before, and computers can do things for us that could never be done before. But our love of computers should not cloud our thinking about their limitations. We are told that computers are smarter than humans and that data mining can identify previously unknown truths, or make discoveries that will revolutionize our lives. Our lives may well be changed, but not necessarily for the better. Computers are very good at discovering patterns, but are useless in judging whether the unearthed patterns are sensible because computers do not think the way humans think. We fear that super-intelligent machines will decide to protect themselves by enslaving or eliminating humans. But the real danger is not that computers are smarter than us, but that we think computers are smarter than us and, so, trust computers to make important decisions for us. The AI Delusion explains why we should not be intimidated into thinking that computers are infallible, that data-mining is knowledge discovery, and that black boxes should be trusted.

The AI Delusion

Gary Smith

Author : Gary Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780192557797

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We live in an incredible period in history. The Computer Revolution may be even more life-changing than the Industrial Revolution. We can do things with computers that could never be done before, and computers can do things for us that could never be done before. But our love of computers should not cloud our thinking about their limitations. We are told that computers are smarter than humans and that data mining can identify previously unknown truths, or make discoveries that will revolutionize our lives. Our lives may well be changed, but not necessarily for the better. Computers are very good at discovering patterns, but are useless in judging whether the unearthed patterns are sensible because computers do not think the way humans think. We fear that super-intelligent machines will decide to protect themselves by enslaving or eliminating humans. But the real danger is not that computers are smarter than us, but that we think computers are smarter than us and, so, trust computers to make important decisions for us. The AI Delusion explains why we should not be intimidated into thinking that computers are infallible, that data-mining is knowledge discovery, and that black boxes should be trusted.

The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

Erik J. Larson

Author : Erik J. Larson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780674983519

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“Artificial intelligence has always inspired outlandish visions—that AI is going to destroy us, save us, or at the very least radically transform us. Erik Larson exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it. This is a timely, important, and even essential book.” —John Horgan, author of The End of Science Many futurists insist that AI will soon achieve human levels of intelligence. From there, it will quickly eclipse the most gifted human mind. The Myth of Artificial Intelligence argues that such claims are just that: myths. We are not on the path to developing truly intelligent machines. We don’t even know where that path might be. Erik Larson charts a journey through the landscape of AI, from Alan Turing’s early work to today’s dominant models of machine learning. Since the beginning, AI researchers and enthusiasts have equated the reasoning approaches of AI with those of human intelligence. But this is a profound mistake. Even cutting-edge AI looks nothing like human intelligence. Modern AI is based on inductive reasoning: computers make statistical correlations to determine which answer is likely to be right, allowing software to, say, detect a particular face in an image. But human reasoning is entirely different. Humans do not correlate data sets; we make conjectures sensitive to context—the best guess, given our observations and what we already know about the world. We haven’t a clue how to program this kind of reasoning, known as abduction. Yet it is the heart of common sense. Larson argues that all this AI hype is bad science and bad for science. A culture of invention thrives on exploring unknowns, not overselling existing methods. Inductive AI will continue to improve at narrow tasks, but if we are to make real progress, we must abandon futuristic talk and learn to better appreciate the only true intelligence we know—our own.

Boomeritis

Ken Wilber

Author : Ken Wilber
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0834821796

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Ken Wilber's latest book is a daring departure from his previous writings—a highly original work of fiction that combines brilliant scholarship with tongue-in-cheek storytelling to present the integral approach to human development that he expounded in more conventional terms in his recent A Theory of Everything. The story of a naïve young grad student in computer science and his quest for meaning in a fragmented world provides the setting in which Wilber contrasts the alienated "flatland" of scientific materialism with the integral vision, which embraces body, mind, soul, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. The book especially targets one of the most stubborn obstacles to realizing the integral vision: a disease of egocentrism and narcissism that Wilber calls "boomeritis" because it seems to plague the baby-boomer generation most of all. Through a series of sparkling seminar-lectures skillfully interwoven with the hero's misadventures in the realms of sex, drugs, and popular culture, all of the major tenets of extreme postmodernism are criticized—and exemplified—including the author's having a bad case of boomeritis himself. Parody, intellectual slapstick, and a mind-twisting surprise ending unite to produce a highly entertaining summary of the work of cutting-edge theorists in human development from around the world.

Rage Inside the Machine

Robert Elliott Smith

Author : Robert Elliott Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781472963895

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Shortlisted for the 2020 Business Book Awards We live in a world increasingly ruled by technology; we seem as governed by technology as we do by laws and regulations. Frighteningly often, the influence of technology in and on our lives goes completely unchallenged by citizens and governments. We comfort ourselves with the soothing refrain that technology has no morals and can display no prejudice, and it's only the users of technology who distort certain aspects of it. But is this statement actually true? Dr Robert Smith thinks it is dangerously untrue in the modern era. Having worked in the field of artificial intelligence for over 30 years, Smith reveals the mounting evidence that the mechanical actors in our lives do indeed have, or at least express, morals: they're just not the morals of the progressive modern society that we imagined we were moving towards. Instead, as we are just beginning to see – in the US elections and Brexit to name but a few – there are increasing incidences of machine bigotry, greed and the crass manipulation of our basest instincts. It is easy to assume that these are the result of programmer prejudices or the product of dark forces manipulating the masses through the network of the Internet. But what if there is something more fundamental and explicitly mechanical at play, something inherent within technology itself? This book demonstrates how non-scientific ideas have been encoded deep into our technological infrastructure. Offering a rigorous, fresh perspective on how technology has brought us to this place, Rage Inside the Machine challenges the long-held assumption that technology is an apolitical and amoral force. Shedding light on little-known historical stories and investigating the complex connections between scientific philosophy, institutional prejudice and new technology, this book offers a new, honest and more truly scientific vision of ourselves.

How to Think

Tom Chatfield

Author : Tom Chatfield
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781529758801

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This is a book about thinking. Engaging and down-to-earth, it captures the habits and practices that are fundamental to clear thinking and effective study. In his warm and friendly style, Tom Chatfield shows you how to: Identify and examine your biases Engage in lively, curious skepticism See the value in emotion and use rhetoric persuasively Know when to say ′I don′t know′ Construct reasoned arguments and explanations Think critically about how you engage with technology. Short and punchy, the book views critical thinking as a skill to be continually practiced and developed. It equips you with a toolkit for clearer thinking, describing ten key concepts that help you to apply what you have learned. Including regular reflective exercises, key concepts, further readings, each chapter also offers recommendations for how to put the ideas it discusses into practice. This book is for undergraduate students and anyone looking to understand the core ideas behind critical thinking. Celebrating both self-reflection and collaboration, this book empowers you to pause, think twice and, above all, think well.

AI The Game of Consciousness

Steve Daniel Hansberger

Author : Steve Daniel Hansberger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798608859519

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This book provides a revolutionarily new concentric sphere model of both human and artificial intelligence. It is intended to dramatically improve understanding and framing of reality and thereby to increase our happiness through effectiveness at getting what we want out of life. No sphere is necessarily more important than another, rather what's important is the fact that we must focus on one and then another and still another, depending upon the urgency of the changing situation in any given sphere. It includes a new model of our mind, reality and AI. Based on diligent research, great effort has been made to stick only to the provable. So, to the largest extent possible this is a true elucidation of the realities of our existence. I am hopeful that it will improve the quality of our life experience and help prevent calamity and destruction. I also attempt to prepare for scenarios that we cannot control due to natural events. In addition, I hope to provide better understanding of human intelligence, artificial intelligence and the different aspects of our shared reality. Hopefully this will also provide a model that will improve the mental health of our world, our families and friends and especially those who suffer from delusion, PTSD, anxiety disorders and other maladies that proper framing and understanding of human intelligence (HI) as well as artificial intelligence (AI) may facilitate.The sphere approach brings a clear focus to the fact that it is not sufficient to "do the ostrich" and focus only on our business, or our family and friends and build our world only in that sphere, while we act like other spheres of reality are not important to our survival, because they are. Awareness of reality is vital to happiness, to mitigating risk and to achieving objectives. Can an artificial intelligence (AI) make intelligent decisions without an accurate awareness of the problem it is solving? No, and the same is true of human intelligence (HI). Even our techniques themselves for dealing with reality are learned by awareness along with creative thought. So, it is important to stay plugged in to all the spheres of life and what I offer you is a first attempt to preliminarily define them.What is this book's purpose?1)To help people cope with reality.2)To present a new sphere-based view of reality that encompasses all intelligences to help us to effectively achieve in each sphere of our reality.3)To demonstrate the parallels between artificial intelligence (AI) and human intelligence (HI) to help intelligences to understand themselves and AI and thereby to be more effective achievers and mitigators of risk.4)To provide a model for reality that enables intelligences to recognize and filter out delusion, to accurately perceive reality.Who is this book's audience?1)All HI interested in AI2)All AI interested in HI3)People seeking to understand our reality.4)All who seek to understand the human mind.5)Intelligences, including people that seek to be effective in accomplishing their objectives.

The Net Delusion

Evgeny Morozov

Author : Evgeny Morozov
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781610391634

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"The revolution will be Twittered!" declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in Iran in June 2009. Yet for all the talk about the democratizing power of the Internet, regimes in Iran and China are as stable and repressive as ever. In fact, authoritarian governments are effectively using the Internet to suppress free speech, hone their surveillance techniques, disseminate cutting-edge propaganda, and pacify their populations with digital entertainment. Could the recent Western obsession with promoting democracy by digital means backfire? In this spirited book, journalist and social commentator Evgeny Morozov shows that by falling for the supposedly democratizing nature of the Internet, Western do-gooders may have missed how it also entrenches dictators, threatens dissidents, and makes it harder -- not easier -- to promote democracy. Buzzwords like "21st-century statecraft" sound good in PowerPoint presentations, but the reality is that "digital diplomacy" requires just as much oversight and consideration as any other kind of diplomacy. Marshaling compelling evidence, Morozov shows why we must stop thinking of the Internet and social media as inherently liberating and why ambitious and seemingly noble initiatives like the promotion of "Internet freedom" might have disastrous implications for the future of democracy as a whole.

The Platform Delusion

Jonathan A. Knee

Author : Jonathan A. Knee
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780593189443

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An investment banker and professor explains what really drives success in the tech economy Many think that they understand the secrets to the success of the biggest tech companies: Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google. It's the platform economy, or network effects, or some other magical power that makes their ultimate world domination inevitable. Investment banker and professor Jonathan Knee argues that the truth is much more complicated--but entrepreneurs and investors can understand what makes the giants work, and learn the keys to lasting success in the digital economy. Knee explains what really makes the biggest tech companies work: a surprisingly disparate portfolio of structural advantages buttressed by shrewd acquisitions, strong management, lax regulation, and often, encouraging the myth that they are invincible to discourage competitors. By offering fresh insights into the true sources of strength and very real vulnerabilities of these companies, The Platform Delusion shows how investors, existing businesses, and startups might value them, compete with them, and imitate them. The Platform Delusion demystifies the success of the biggest digital companies in sectors from retail to media to software to hardware, offering readers what those companies don't want everyone else to know. Knee's insights are invaluable for entrepreneurs and investors in digital businesses seeking to understand what drives resilience and profitability for the long term.

The Great American Delusion

Patrick Davies

Author : Patrick Davies
Publisher : Caravan Books UK
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781838251215

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Something has been going badly wrong in America. But what is really happening, why, and what does it mean? Could the US itself now be the greatest threat to the future of the West? What does Joe Biden need to do to get America back on track? In this fascinating account of America today, Patrick Davies, former British Deputy Ambassador to the US, sets out to understand how America, blinded by myths of its own exceptionalism, has failed to tackle serious political, social and economic problems which are exacerbating divisions in its society, poisoning its politics and ultimately fuelling America’s decline. The Great American Delusion asks whether, with global power shifting eastwards, the US can save itself and, with it, the Western world before it’s too late. Patrick Davies worked alongside the Obama and Trump White Houses for five years. He has more than 30 years’ experience of America, its people and its politics.

The Cult of We

Eliot Brown,Maureen Farrell

Author : Eliot Brown,Maureen Farrell
Publisher : Crown
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780593237137

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The Cult of We by Eliot Brown,Maureen Farrell Pdf

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • A FINANCIAL TIMES, FORTUNE, AND NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “The riveting, definitive account of WeWork, one of the wildest business stories of our time.”—Matt Levine, Money Stuff columnist, Bloomberg Opinion The definitive story of the rise and fall of WeWork (also depicted in the upcoming Apple TV+ series WeCrashed, starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway), by the real-life journalists whose Wall Street Journal reporting rocked the company and exposed a financial system drunk on the elixir of Silicon Valley innovation. LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WeWork would be worth $10 trillion, more than any other company in the world. It wasn’t just an office space provider. It was a tech company—an AI startup, even. Its WeGrow schools and WeLive residences would revolutionize education and housing. One day, mused founder Adam Neumann, a Middle East peace accord would be signed in a WeWork. The company might help colonize Mars. And Neumann would become the world’s first trillionaire. This was the vision of Neumann and his primary cheerleader, SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son. In hindsight, their ambition for the company, whose primary business was subletting desks in slickly designed offices, seems like madness. Why did so many intelligent people—from venture capitalists to Wall Street elite—fall for the hype? And how did WeWork go so wrong? In little more than a decade, Neumann transformed himself from a struggling baby clothes salesman into the charismatic, hard-partying CEO of a company worth $47 billion—on paper. With his long hair and feel-good mantras, the six-foot-five Israeli transplant looked the part of a messianic truth teller. Investors swooned, and billions poured in. Neumann dined with the CEOs of JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, entertaining a parade of power brokers desperate to get a slice of what he was selling: the country’s most valuable startup, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and a generation-defining moment. Soon, however, WeWork was burning through cash faster than Neumann could bring it in. From his private jet, sometimes clouded with marijuana smoke, he scoured the globe for more capital. Then, as WeWork readied a Hail Mary IPO, it all fell apart. Nearly $40 billion of value vaporized in one of corporate America’s most spectacular meltdowns. Peppered with eye-popping, never-before-reported details, The Cult of We is the gripping story of careless and often absurd people—and the financial system they have made.

The Talent Delusion

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

Author : Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Publisher : Piatkus
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780349412498

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All organisations have problems, and they nearly always concern people: how to manage them; whom to hire, fire or promote; and how to motivate, develop and retain high performers. Psychology, the main science for understanding people, should be a pivotal tool for solving these problems - yet most companies play it by ear, and billions of dollars are wasted on futile interventions to attract and retain the right people for key roles. Bridging the gap between the psychological science of talent and common real-world talent practices, The Talent Delusion aims to educate HR and talent practitioners and leaders on critical talent issues. It will help readers understand the current problems pertaining employee selection, development and engagement; how to define and evaluate talent; how to detect and inhibit toxic employee behaviours; and how to motivate employees to perform to their best.

The Disease Delusion

Dr. Jeffrey S. Bland

Author : Dr. Jeffrey S. Bland
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780062290755

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For decades, Dr. Jeffrey Bland has been on the cutting edge of Functional Medicine, which seeks to pinpoint and prevent the cause of illness, rather than treat its symptoms. Managing chronic diseases accounts for three quarters of our total healthcare costs, because we’re masking these illnesses with pills and temporary treatments, rather than addressing their underlying causes, he argues. Worse, only treating symptoms leads us down the path of further illness. In The Disease Delusion, Dr. Bland explains what Functional Medicine is and what it can do for you. While advances in modern science have nearly doubled our lifespans in only four generations, our quality of life has not reached its full potential. Outlining the reasons why we suffer chronic diseases from asthma and diabetes to obesity, arthritis and cancer to a host of other ailments, Dr. Bland offers achievable, science-based solutions that can alleviate these common conditions and offers a roadmap for a lifetime of wellness.

The Science Delusion

Curtis White

Author : Curtis White
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781612192017

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One of our most brilliant social critics—author of the bestselling The Middle Mind—presents a scathing critique of the “delusions” of science alongside a rousing defense of the tradition of Romanticism and the “big” questions. With the rise of religion critics such as Richard Dawkins, and of pseudo-science advocates such as Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah Lehrer, you’re likely to become a subject of ridicule if you wonder “Why is there something instead of nothing?” or “What is our purpose on earth?” Instead, at universities around the world, and in the general cultural milieu, we’re all being taught that science can resolve all questions without the help of philosophy, politics, or the humanities. In short, the rich philosophical debates of the 19th century have been nearly totally abandoned, argues critic Curtis White. An atheist himself, White nonetheless calls this new turn “scientism”—and fears what it will do to our culture if allowed to flourish without challenge. In fact, in “scientism” White sees a new religion with many unexamined assumptions. In this brilliant multi-part critique, he aims at a TED talk by a distinguished neuroscientist in which we are told that human thought is merely the product of our “connectome,” a map of neural connections in the brain that is yet to be fully understood. . . . He whips a widely respected physicist who argues that our new understanding of the origins of the universe obviates any philosophical inquiry . . . and ends with a learned defense of the tradition of Romanticism, which White believes our technology and science-obsessed world desperately needs to rediscover. It’s the only way, he argues, that we can see our world clearly. . . and change it.

Deceitful Media

Simone Natale

Author : Simone Natale
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190080365

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"Since its inception, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been nurtured by the dream - cherished by some scientists while dismissed as unrealistic by others - that it will lead to forms of intelligence similar or alternative to human life. However, AI might be more accurately described as a range of technologies providing a convincing illusion of intelligence - in other words, not much the creation of intelligent beings, but rather of technologies that are perceived by humans as such. Deceitful Media argues that AI resides also and especially in the perception of human users. Exploring the history of AI from its origins in the Turing Test to contemporary AI voice assistants such as Alexa and Siri, Simone Natale demonstrates that our tendency to project humanity into things shapes the very functioning and implications of AI. He argues for a recalibration of the relationship between deception and AI that helps recognize and critically question how computing technologies mobilize specific aspects of users' perception and psychology in order to create what we call "AI." Introducing the concept of "banal deception," which describes deceptive mechanisms and practices that are embedded in AI, the book shows that deception is as central to AI's functioning as the circuits, software, and data that make it run. Delving into the relationship between AI and deception, Deceitful Media thus reformulates the debate on AI on the basis of a new assumption: that what machines are changing is primarily us, humans. If 'intelligent' machines might one day revolutionize life, the book provocatively suggests, they are already transforming how we understand and carry out social interactions"--

The Ai Delusion

The AI Delusion by Gary Smith Pdf

The AI Delusion by Gary Smith Pdf

The Myth of Artificial Intelligence by Erik J. Larson Pdf

Boomeritis by Ken Wilber Pdf

Rage Inside the Machine by Robert Elliott Smith Pdf

How to Think by Tom Chatfield Pdf

AI The Game of Consciousness by Steve Daniel Hansberger Pdf

The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov Pdf

The Platform Delusion by Jonathan A. Knee Pdf

The Great American Delusion by Patrick Davies Pdf

The Cult of We by Eliot Brown,Maureen Farrell Pdf

The Talent Delusion by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Pdf

The Disease Delusion by Dr. Jeffrey S. Bland Pdf

The Science Delusion by Curtis White Pdf

Deceitful Media by Simone Natale Pdf

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