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The Loop audiobook
- By: Jacob Ward
- Narrator: Jacob Ward
- Category: Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Science
- Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 25, 2022
- Language: English
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The Loop Audiobook Summary
This eye-opening narrative journey into the rapidly changing world of artificial intelligence reveals the dangerous ways AI is exploiting the unconscious habits of our minds–and the real threat it poses to humanity.
Artificial intelligence is going to change the world as we know it. But the real danger isn’t some robot that’s going to enslave us: It’s our own brain. Our brains are constantly making decisions using shortcuts, biases, and hidden processes–and we’re using those same techniques to create technology that makes choices for us. In The Loop, award-winning science journalist Jacob Ward reveals how we are poised to build all of our worst instincts into our AIs, creating a narrow loop where each generation has fewer, predetermined, and even dangerous choices.
Taking us on a world tour of the ongoing, real-world experiment of artificial intelligence, The Loop illuminates the dangers of writing dangerous human habits into our machines. From a biometric surveillance state in India that tracks the movements of over a billion people, to a social media control system in China that punishes deviant friendships, to the risky multiple-choice simplicity of automated military action, Ward travels the world speaking with top experts confronting the perils of their research. Each stop reveals how the most obvious patterns in our behavior–patterns an algorithm will use to make decisions about what’s best for us–are not the ones we want to perpetuate.
Just as politics, marketing, and finance have all exploited the weaknesses of our human programming, artificial intelligence is poised to use the patterns of our lives to manipulate us. The Loop is call to look at ourselves more clearly–our most creative ideas, our most destructive impulses, the ways we help and hurt one another-so we can put only the best parts of ourselves into the thinking machines we create.
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The Loop Full Details
| Narrator | Jacob Ward |
| Length | 9 hours 25 minutes |
| Author | Jacob Ward |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Hachette Audio |
| Release date | January 25, 2022 |
| ISBN | 9781549134005 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Loop is Hachette Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Science
Additional info
The publisher of the The Loop is Hachette Audio. The imprint is Hachette Books. It is supplied by Hachette Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781549134005.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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