Download Audiobook How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms by Gerd Gigerenzer in English

How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms

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Doomsday prophets of expertise predict that robots will take over the world, leaving people behind within the mud. Tech trade boosters suppose changing folks with software program may make the world a greater place—whereas tech trade critics warn darkly about surveillance capitalism. Regardless of their differing views of the long run, all of them agree: machines will quickly do every thing higher than people. Learn how to Keep Good in a Good World exhibits why that is not true, and tells us how we are able to keep in cost in a world populated by algorithms.Machines powered by synthetic intelligence are good at some issues (enjoying chess), however not others (life-and-death choices, or something involving uncertainty). Gerd Gigerenzer explains why algorithms usually fail at discovering us romantic companions (love just isn’t chess), why self-driving automobiles fall prey to the Russian Tank Fallacy, and the way judges and police rely more and more on nontransparent “black field” algorithms to foretell whether or not a legal defendant will reoffend or present up in court docket. He invokes Black Mirror, considers the privateness paradox (folks need privateness, however give their knowledge away), and explains that social media get us hooked by programming intermittent reinforcement within the type of the “like” button. We should not belief good expertise unconditionally, Gigerenzer tells us, however we should not concern it unthinkingly, both.

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