How AI Ate the World
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Artificial intelligence will shake up life in the 2020s as dramatically as the internet did in the 2000s. This accessible, up-to-date book charts AI’s rise from its origins in Cold War America to its imminent and far-reaching impact on us today.Tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker (TikTok Boom and YouTubers) goes into the laboratories of the Silicon Valley innovators making rapid advances in ‘large language models’ of machine learning. He meets the insiders at Google and OpenAI who built Bard and ChatGPT and reveals the extraordinary plans they have for them. And he explores the dark side of AI by talking to workers who have lost their jobs to chatbots and engages with futurologists worried that we are creating a dangerous super-intelligence that could threaten humankind.Along the way, he answers critical questions about the AI revolution, such as what, if anything, humanity is jeopardising; the professions that will win and lose; and whether the existential threat Elon Musk and Sam Altman warn about is realistic – or a smokescreen to divert attention away from their growing power. How AI Ate the World is a ‘start here’ guide for anyone who wants to know more about the next big tech wave. It’s vital reading.
CONTRIBUTORS: Chris Stokel-Walker
EAN: 9781914487323
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 380 g
HEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Canbury Press
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GENRE: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Information Management, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General, COMPUTERS / Business & Productivity Software / Business Intelligence, COMPUTERS / Information Technology, EDUCATION / Computers & Technology
WIDTH: 153 cm
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Book Themes:
United Kingdom, Great Britain, China, United States of America, USA, Internet and digital media: arts and performance, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Robotics, Computing and Information Technology, Computer science, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning
"From ancient China to Victorian England, How AI Ate The World is the story of the characters, moments, technologies, and relationships that populate the rich history of artificial intelligence. A book about what is gained––and what is lost––amidst the steady march of a technology that now saturates our lives, How AI Ate The World grapples with what the age of automation means for the people living through it."
Harry Law, University of Cambridge
Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance English journalist, specialising in technology. He regularly contributes to the BBC, Washington Post, New York Times, WIRED, Economist, Guardian, New Scientist and Newsweek, and appears on the BBC, Sky News, CNN, Al Jazeera, Times Radio and other TV channels and radio stations.Chris is author of YouTubers: How YouTube Shook Up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars (2019, Canbury Press), and TikTok Boom: China’s Dynamite App and the Superpower Race for Social Media (2021, Canbury Press) – the first popular book on TikTok.His latest book is The History of the Internet in Byte-Sized Chunks (2023, Michael O’Mara Books).
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Artificial intelligence will shake up life in the 2020s as dramatically as the internet did in the 2000s. This accessible, up-to-date book charts AI’s rise from its origins in Cold War America to its imminent and far-reaching impact on us today.Tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker (TikTok Boom and YouTubers) goes into the laboratories of the Silicon Valley innovators making rapid advances in ‘large language models’ of machine learning. He meets the insiders at Google and OpenAI who built Bard and ChatGPT and reveals the extraordinary plans they have for them. And he explores the dark side of AI by talking to workers who have lost their jobs to chatbots and engages with futurologists worried that we are creating a dangerous super-intelligence that could threaten humankind.Along the way, he answers critical questions about the AI revolution, such as what, if anything, humanity is jeopardising; the professions that will win and lose; and whether the existential threat Elon Musk and Sam Altman warn about is realistic – or a smokescreen to divert attention away from their growing power. How AI Ate the World is a ‘start here’ guide for anyone who wants to know more about the next big tech wave. It’s vital reading.
CONTRIBUTORS: Chris Stokel-Walker
EAN: 9781914487323
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES:
WEIGHT: 380 g
HEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Canbury Press
DATE PUBLISHED:
CITY:
GENRE: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Information Management, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General, COMPUTERS / Business & Productivity Software / Business Intelligence, COMPUTERS / Information Technology, EDUCATION / Computers & Technology
WIDTH: 153 cm
SPINE:
Book Themes:
United Kingdom, Great Britain, China, United States of America, USA, Internet and digital media: arts and performance, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Robotics, Computing and Information Technology, Computer science, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning
Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance English journalist, specialising in technology. He regularly contributes to the BBC, Washington Post, New York Times, WIRED, Economist, Guardian, New Scientist and Newsweek, and appears on the BBC, Sky News, CNN, Al Jazeera, Times Radio and other TV channels and radio stations.Chris is author of YouTubers: How YouTube Shook Up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars (2019, Canbury Press), and TikTok Boom: China’s Dynamite App and the Superpower Race for Social Media (2021, Canbury Press) – the first popular book on TikTok.His latest book is The History of the Internet in Byte-Sized Chunks (2023, Michael O’Mara Books).
