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Why Machines Learn
Anil Ananthaswamy (Allen Lane (UK); Penguin Random House (US))
As someone who writes for a living, I routinely feel assaulted by the onslaught of generative artificial intelligence. How long before I become a mere massager of prompted paragraphs, the joy of creation abandoned in favour of more, faster, cheaper?
Anil Ananthaswamy’s Why Machines Learn: The elegant maths behind modern AI won’t tell me or you about the future of AI in our society, nor what we should do about it. But whether you regard the algorithms used in facial recognition,…
