How AI Can Shape its Own Future: What It Do Now, May Come Next, the Risks, and to Stay in Control

This is a very important book on a serious subject title This is a book about a single idea that is easy to state and surprisingly hard to think clearly about. Artificial intelligence has become one of the tools we use to build artificial intelligence. The systems we are creating now help design, train, test, and improve the systems that will come next. That makes AI different from almost every other technology in human history, and it is the reason this subject deserves a careful book rather than a headline. Most people who follow technology news have absorbed a rough picture of how artificial intelligence is made. Engineers gather enormous amounts of data, assemble vast banks of specialized computer chips, and train a model by having it adjust itself billions of times until it can perform a task. In that picture, humans build the machine and the machine does the work. It is a clean division of labor, and it is increasingly wrong. The reality is that AI now sits on both sides of that line. Modern AI systems help write the code that trains other AI systems. They help design the experiments that test new ideas. They help generate and clean the data that the next generation will learn from. They help search through the enormous space of possible designs to find the ones worth trying. The machine is no longer only the product of the work. It has become one of the workers.

Pagina's: 147, Paperback, Independently published