Completed: 1/31/2023
Recommendation: Highly Recommended
Recommended By: Nobody
Words for which I sought help:
lacuna -- an unfilled space or interval; a gap
Review:
Beware, the pace on the audio is languid--I turned it up to 1.5 speed and lost nothing, but gained an unnecessary sense of urgency at the clipped words. I am familiar, on the periphery with how AI systems are programmed and this book hits hard at one of the serious problems with AI--it can get caught on local maxima. It is also only as good as the validation parameters, so it can maximize items identified in the validation parameters but seriously undermine other, unidentified parameters. Morality is rather difficult to enumerate, so it was not part of the validation parameters and this book talks about the bloody outcome. I now look at any recommendation from any social media with a jaundiced eye. It also explains to me why my friends and even children seem to have heard of so many bizarre and unlikely convoluted explanations for things, but are unaware of the obvious explanation. This is an excellent book and anyone who interacts with social media (basically anyone) should read it.
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