Hello World – Being Human in the Age of Algorithms - Softcover

Fry, Hannah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393357368 ISBN 13: 9780393357363

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2020

Synopsis

When it comes to artificial intelligence, we hear either of a paradise on Earth or of our imminent extinction. It's time we stand faceto-digital-face with the true powers and limitations of the algorithms that already automate important decisions in healthcare, transportation, crime, and commerce. Hello World is indispensable preparation for the moral quandaries of a world run by code, and with the unfailingly entertaining Hannah Fry as our guide, we'll be discussing these issues long after the last page is turned. "With refreshing simplicity, Fry explains what AI, machine learning and complicated algorithms really mean." - Guardian "Fascinating and funny. I learned something on every page." - Tom Chivers, BuzzFeed "An action- packed read during which you will be outraged, provoked, and challenged." - Cathy O'Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction

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Review:

An action-packed read during which you will be outraged, provoked, and challenged.--Cathy O'Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction

For a reader unfamiliar with the technical aspects of AI, this book offers among the best lay explanations of how algorithms work.

Mixing mathematics and storytelling, this book asks the big questions about algorithms and humans--and their future together.

A lucid and timely analysis.

With refreshing simplicity, Fry explains what AI, machine learning and complicated algorithms really mean.

Fascinating and funny. I learned something on every page.--Tom Chivers

This short, sharp book on the power and dangers of algorithms offers one of the clearest explanations of a complex subject.

Hannah Fry is one of the best STEM explainers and popularizers today.--"Top Ten Technology Books of 2018"

Hannah Fry makes algorithms sound not only quite interesting but an idea that we must understand better as they dominate more and more of our daily lives in ways we see and in many ways we don't.

A well-constructed tour of technology and its discontents?timely, too, given the increasing prominence of AI in our daily lives.

About the Author:

Hannah Fry is an associate professor in the mathematics of cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. A regular presenter for the BBC, she lives in London and tweets @FryRsquared.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0393357368
• ISBN 13: 9780393357363
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256