Smart Until It's Dumb - by Emmanuel Maggiori (Paperback)

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Artificial intelligence is everywhere-powering news feeds, curating search results and invisibly steering our lives.
Author(s): Emmanuel Maggiori
200 Pages
Computers, Artificial Intelligence

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"Artificial intelligence is everywhere, powering news feeds, curating search results and invisibly steering our lives. We talk to it and, increasingly, it talks back. And sometimes its answers seem eerily smart. ... Until they don't. Billions of dollars have been poured into AI yet it keeps surprising us with its epic fails; confidently wrong chatbots, inadvertently racist photo apps, well-meaning autonomous cars that fail to recognize traffic cones. Industry insider Emmanuel Maggiori cuts through the hype, revealing the deceptively simple mechanisms behind AI's impressive results, and its spectacular blunders. Learn the dark secret of the AI industry, how unreasonable expectations, shady practices and outright lying have inflated a bubble of monumental proportions. Read Smart Until It's Dumb to discover how AI really works, why it's not always so smart, and why the AI bubble is about to burst"--

Book Synopsis

Artificial intelligence is everywhere-powering news feeds, curating search results and invisibly steering our lives. We talk to it and, increasingly, it talks back. And sometimes its answers seem eerily smart.

... Until they don't.

Billions of dollars have been poured into AI yet it keeps surprising us with its epic fails-confidently wrong chatbots, inadvertently racist photo apps, well-meaning autonomous cars that fail to recognize traffic cones.

Industry insider Emmanuel Maggiori cuts through the hype, revealing the deceptively simple mechanisms behind AI's impressive results-and its spectacular blunders.

Learn the dark secret of the AI industry-how unreasonable expectations, shady practices and outright lying have inflated a bubble of monumental proportions.

Read Smart Until It's Dumb to discover how AI really works, why it's not always so smart, and why the AI bubble is about to burst.

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Emmanuel Maggiori, PhD, is a 10-year AI industry insider, specialized in machine learning and scientific computing. He helps companies build complex software. He has developed AI for a wide variety of applications, from extracting objects from satellite images to packaging holiday deals for millions of travelers every day.

Review Quotes

"The most lucid layman's account of AI and its limitations I have found."

The Daily Telegraph.

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Dimensions (Overall): 7.81 Inches (H) x 5.06 Inches (W) x .46 Inches (D)

Weight: .44 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 200

Genre: Computers

Sub-Genre: Artificial Intelligence

Publisher: Applied Maths Ltd

Theme: General

Format: Paperback

Author: Emmanuel Maggiori

Language: English

Street Date: February 20, 2023

TCIN: 1002717488

UPC: 9781838337223

Item Number (DPCI): 247-34-0796

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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