I perhaps should have read this book on kindle rather than listened to it – I’m not a good auditory learner and I know this, so any audio nonfiction needs to be fairly general so I can just get the gist and be fine. AI is pretty far outside my realm of expertise, but it was written for the general public so I thought audio would work fine. It was an interesting listen, though–the book broke down types of AI into generative and predictive (and possibly more categories besides. See, I should read and highlight), and made the point that predictive is inherently poor and isn’t likely to ever improve. Generative can be very good already, but there are potentially other economic and existential concerns there. I can’t say I really walked away with a great deal of new information, but I did appreciate that they were trying to send the signal that we shouldn’t assume AI is all-knowing and trust it implicitly. It’s not God. And for those who are not in the industry, this is probably a message that needs to be more emphasized, simply because AI is so impressive in the areas where it works well.
My rating: ***1/2
Language: none
Violence: none
Sexual content: none
Political content: none that I recall
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