A favorable review by Ray Kurzweil who is considered an optimist regarding AI. Barrat is raising very important questions about AI and has interviewed top researchers in the field in this fascinating and yet disturbing book about how AI could displace humans. I was just re-reading parts of it again. I am a former systems analyst/engineer turned Internet marketer and I find the intersection of computer science and psychology that AI consists of to be of strong interest. Think of an AI that has lots of data regarding consumer behavior that generates advertising to program the human mind to purchase, the ultimate sales machine
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 09:29:41 +0000