by Tim Weinhold | Jan 30, 2020 | Book Review
And the winner by acclamation in the nonfiction ‘Holy Crap! I May Never Be Able To Sleep Again!’ category is Sandworm by Andy Greenberg. And, yes, Greenberg’s tale of cyberwar over the past decade is absolutely that terrifying. Here’s how his book begins: On June 27,...
by Tim Weinhold | Jan 3, 2020 | Book Review
MINDF*CK: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America By Christopher Wylie INFORMATION WARS: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It By Richard Stengel ANTI-SOCIAL: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of...
by Tim Weinhold | Nov 30, 2019 | Book Review
“What if we succeed?” Specifically, what happens if we, the AI scientists of the world, succeed in building ever-smarter, ever-more-capable machines, eventually rivaling or surpassing the intelligence of humans? Will the world be better off, or worse? That’s the...
by Tim Weinhold | Oct 28, 2019 | Book Review
THE ETHICAL ALGORITHM: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design By Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth and A HUMAN ALGORITHM: How Artificial Intelligence is Redefining Who We Are By Flynn Coleman Two buttoned-down AI scientists and a ‘can’t we all just get along?’...
by Tim Weinhold | Sep 27, 2019 | Book Review
Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, has written an important book, maybe even a watershed book. He did so with the help of Carol Ann Browne, the company’s senior director of communications. Leaders in both tech and government will be talking about the book, and...
by Tim Weinhold | Sep 1, 2019 | Book Review
What does it mean to be human? Or, put more narrowly in light of the advances of AI and neuroscience, should we think of humans as simply a complex form of biochemical computer? Is the human mind, including its sense of self-consciousness, really nothing more than the...
