by Tim Weinhold | Oct 31, 2018 | Book Review
Three economists, Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb, teamed up to write Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence. Maybe it’s not surprising, then, that their book boils down to three foundational insights: New developments in...
by Tim Weinhold | Oct 31, 2018 | Curated Content
“M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1 Billion,” Steve Lohr, The New York Times, October 15, 2018 Describes plans for a new college at MIT, explicitly focused on AI and its ethical challenges, and made possible by a linchpin gift from Stephen...
by Tim Weinhold | Oct 27, 2018 | Book Review
P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking, authors of LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media, have a premise that is at once remarkable and patently obvious: social media rules the world — and not for good. As they put it in their introduction: “This is a book about how...
by Tim Weinhold | Oct 27, 2018 | Book Review
Remember when our online problems stayed there, reliably separate from our ‘real lives?’ Turns out, those were the good old days. Now we increasingly inhabit a world in which the distinction between online and offline has disappeared. More to the point, now online...
by Tim Weinhold | Oct 22, 2018 | Book Review
Tom Clancy, James Patterson, or Dan Brown probably wish they’d written the opening sentence of Paul Scharre’s book, Army of None: “On the night of September 26, 1983, the world almost ended.” From there, Scharre tells a truly terrifying tale. It was the height of the...
