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Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine

Hannah Fry

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#1338 of 3,809 books · #119 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2018) and the Royal Society Science Book Prize (2018).

You are accused of a crime. Who would you rather determined your fate - a human or an algorithm? An algorithm is more consistent and less prone to error of judgement. Yet a human can look you in the eye before passing sentence. Welcome to the age of the algorithm, the story of a not-too-distant future where machines rule supreme, making important decisions - in healthcare, transport, finance, security, what we watch, where we go even who we send to prison. So how much should we rely on them? What kind of future do we want? Hannah Fry takes us on a tour of the good, the bad and the downright ugly of the algorithms that surround us. In Hello World she lifts the lid on their inner workings, demonstrates their power, exposes their limitations, and examines whether they really are an improvement on the humans they are replacing.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781473544710
Topics
AlgorithmsArtificial intelligenceTechnology ethics
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