![]() Its thrust, though, can be summarized in four sentences. The book is dense in parts, and it contains as useful an introduction to the state of the art in AI, as of 2019, as any I've seen. Stuart Russell's contribution to the vast and growing popular literature on AI was widely reviewed when it came out, just before the pandemic its significance is such that it has its own Wikipedia page, like The Divine Comedy - which can also be profitably read as a theory of humans. This must be doubly true of a book with the word "human" in the title. We will need to become good at being human.Īny book that aims to explain or to make predictions about artificial intelligence is necessarily in thrall to a theory of intelligence, and thus nearly always to a theory of humans as well. 1 Perhaps future generations will wonder why we ever worried about such a futile thing as “work.” … if we can no longer supply routine physical labor and routine mental labor, we can still supply our humanity. ![]()
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