[D66] AI: 'The Loop'

[René Oudeweg]

jacobward.com <https://jacobward.com/theloop/>


  The Loop

3–4 minutes
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<https://www.amazon.com/Loop-Technology-Creating-Without-Choices/dp/0316487201/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=jacob+ward+the+loop&qid=1633805026&sr=8-1>


          “The Loop /is a strong entry in the canon…AI //represents
          perhaps the ultimate shiny object. But Ward penetrates to the
          dark vacancy at its core.”/ – San Francisco Chronicle
          <https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/review-tech-writers-stark-warning-of-how-ai-is-stripping-our-ability-to-make-decisions>


          “The best book I have ever read about AI.” – Roger McNamee,
          New York Times bestselling author of /Zucked/

A robot mediator for divorced couples. Software that tells police where 
to look for crime before it happens. Algorithms that finish half-written 
symphonies. Artificial intelligence is beginning to pick up patterns in 
our behavior that we’re not even conscious of, and as companies use it 
to reflect our unconscious selves back at us, we may not like what we’re 
about to become. In /The Loop: How Technology is Creating a World 
without Choices and How to Fight Back,/ NBC News technology 
correspondent Jacob Ward melds the latest behavioral science with 
reporting from the frontiers of machine learning and activism to write 
what reviewers are calling “fascinating and unsettling,” and “a 
brilliant look at how A.I. turned to the dark side.”

Here’s my recent discussion about the book with DJ Patil at the 
Commonwealth Club:

https://youtu.be/c9bjDDYpVA4


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