Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine - Hardcover

Fry, Hannah

 
9780857525246: Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0857525247 ISBN 13: 9780857525246
Verlag: Doubleday, 2018

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Shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize and 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize.

'One of the best books yet written on data and algorithms. . .deserves a place on the bestseller charts.' (The Times)

You are accused of a crime. Who would you rather determined your fate - a human or an algorithm?
An algorithm is more consistent and less prone to error of judgement. Yet a human can look you in the eye before passing sentence.

Welcome to the age of the algorithm, the story of a not-too-distant future where machines rule supreme, making important decisions - in healthcare, transport, finance, security, what we watch, where we go even who we send to prison. So how much should we rely on them? What kind of future do we want?

Hannah Fry takes us on a tour of the good, the bad and the downright ugly of the algorithms that surround us. In Hello World she lifts the lid on their inner workings, demonstrates their power, exposes their limitations, and examines whether they really are an improvement on the humans they are replacing.

'Fry is fast becoming the David Attenborough of maths' - TELEGRAPH
A BBC RADIO 4: BOOK OF THE WEEK


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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Hannah Fry is an Associate Professor in the mathematics of cities from University College London.She is also the author of The Mathematics of Love, The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus and Hello World. In her day job she uses mathematical models to study patterns in human behaviour, and has worked with governments, police forces, health analysts and supermarkets. Her TED talks have amassed millions of views and she has fronted television documentaries for the BBC and PBS; she also hosts the long-running science podcast, 'The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry' with the BBC.

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Verlag
Doubleday
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0857525247
ISBN 13 
9780857525246
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
256
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