
How to Stay Smart in a Smart World
Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms
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Narrated by:
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Joel Richards
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By:
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Gerd Gigerenzer
Doomsday prophets of technology predict that robots will take over the world, leaving humans behind in the dust. Tech industry boosters think replacing people with software might make the world a better place—while tech industry critics warn darkly about surveillance capitalism. Despite their differing views of the future, they all agree: machines will soon do everything better than humans. How to Stay Smart in a Smart World shows why that's not true, and tells us how we can stay in charge in a world populated by algorithms.
Machines powered by artificial intelligence are good at some things (playing chess), but not others (life-and-death decisions, or anything involving uncertainty). Gerd Gigerenzer explains why algorithms often fail at finding us romantic partners (love is not chess), why self-driving cars fall prey to the Russian Tank Fallacy, and how judges and police rely increasingly on nontransparent "black box" algorithms to predict whether a criminal defendant will reoffend or show up in court. He invokes Black Mirror, considers the privacy paradox (people want privacy, but give their data away), and explains that social media get us hooked by programming intermittent reinforcement in the form of the "like" button. We shouldn't trust smart technology unconditionally, Gigerenzer tells us, but we shouldn't fear it unthinkingly, either.
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thinking critically in the modern age
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I enjoyed the first third or so but it felt like the book went a little off the rails in the middle; giving very light coverage to some AI and probability topics that are better covered in other books.
Probably still worth most people’s time - if for nothing else than the final chapters coverage of how to be a more critical reader.
I hoped for more…
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If a writer is so blinkered, why take on trust anything he or she says about anything?
I Paid for This Nonsense
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