AI snake oil : what artificial intelligence can do, what it can't, and how to tell the difference /
Narayanan, Arvind
AI snake oil : what artificial intelligence can do, what it can't, and how to tell the difference / Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2024
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A trade book that argues that predictive AI is snake oil: it cannot and will never work. Artificial Intelligence is an umbrella term for a set of loosely related technologies. For instance, ChatGPT has little in common with algorithms that banks use to evaluate loan applicants. Both of these are referred to as AI, but in all of the salient ways - how they work, what they're used for and by whom, and how they fail - they couldn't be more different. Understanding the fundamental differences between AI technologies is critical for a technologically literate public to evaluate how AI is being used all around us. In this book, Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor explain the major strains of AI in use today: generative AI, predictive AI, and AI for content moderation. They show readers how to differentiate between them and, importantly, make a cogent argument for which types of AI can work well and which can never work.
9780691249643
2024001331
Artificial intelligence.
006.3
AI snake oil : what artificial intelligence can do, what it can't, and how to tell the difference / Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2024
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A trade book that argues that predictive AI is snake oil: it cannot and will never work. Artificial Intelligence is an umbrella term for a set of loosely related technologies. For instance, ChatGPT has little in common with algorithms that banks use to evaluate loan applicants. Both of these are referred to as AI, but in all of the salient ways - how they work, what they're used for and by whom, and how they fail - they couldn't be more different. Understanding the fundamental differences between AI technologies is critical for a technologically literate public to evaluate how AI is being used all around us. In this book, Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor explain the major strains of AI in use today: generative AI, predictive AI, and AI for content moderation. They show readers how to differentiate between them and, importantly, make a cogent argument for which types of AI can work well and which can never work.
9780691249643
2024001331
Artificial intelligence.
006.3