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Author Gigerenzer, Gerd, author.

Title How to stay smart in a smart world / Gerd Gigerenzer
Edition [First edition]
Published [Old Saybrook, Connecticut] : Tantor Media, Inc., 2022

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Description 1 online resource (1 audio file (10 hr., 09 min.))
Summary Doomsday prophets of technology predict that robots will take over the world, leaving humans behind in the dust. Tech industry boosters think replacing people with software might make the world a better place-while tech industry critics warn darkly about surveillance capitalism. Despite their differing views of the future, they all agree: machines will soon do everything better than humans. How to Stay Smart in a Smart World shows why that's not true, and tells us how we can stay in charge in a world populated by algorithms. Machines powered by artificial intelligence are good at some things (playing chess), but not others (life-and-death decisions, or anything involving uncertainty). Gerd Gigerenzer explains why algorithms often fail at finding us romantic partners (love is not chess), why self-driving cars fall prey to the Russian Tank Fallacy, and how judges and police rely increasingly on nontransparent "black box" algorithms to predict whether a criminal defendant will reoffend or show up in court. He invokes Black Mirror, considers the privacy paradox (people want privacy, but give their data away), and explains that social media get us hooked by programming intermittent reinforcement in the form of the "like" button. We shouldn't trust smart technology unconditionally, Gigerenzer tells us, but we shouldn't fear it unthinkingly, either
Performer Read by Joel Richards
Notes Online resource; title from title details screen (O'Reilly, viewed July 27, 2022)
Subject Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects
Expert systems (Computer science) -- Safety measures
Expert systems (Computer science) -- Risk assessment
Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects
Genre/Form Audiobooks
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Form Streaming audio
Author Richards, Joel, narrator.
ISBN 9798765011836