Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World - Hardcover

Steiner, Christopher

 
9781591844921: Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1591844924 ISBN 13: 9781591844921
Verlag: Portfolio Penguin, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

The rousing story of the last gasp of human agency and how today’s best and brightest minds are endeavoring to put an end to it.

It used to be that to diagnose an illness, interpret legal documents, analyze foreign policy, or write a newspaper article you needed a human being with specific skills—and maybe an advanced degree or two. These days, high-level tasks are increasingly being handled by algorithms that can do precise work not only with speed but also with nuance. These “bots” started with human programming and logic, but now their reach extends beyond what their creators ever expected.
In this fascinating, frightening book, Christopher Steiner tells the story of how algorithms took over—and shows why the “bot revolution” is about to spill into every aspect of our lives, often silently, without our knowledge.
The May 2010 “Flash Crash” exposed Wall Street’s reliance on trading bots to the tune of a 998-point market drop and $1 trillion in vanished market value. But that was just the beginning. InAutomate This, we meet bots that are driving cars, penning haiku, and writing music mistaken for Bach’s. They listen in on our customer service calls and figure out what Iran would do in the event of a nuclear standoff. There are algorithms that can pick out the most cohesive crew of astronauts for a space mission or identify the next Jeremy Lin. Some can even ingest statistics from baseball games and spit out pitch-perfect sports journalism indistinguishable from that produced by humans.
The interaction of man and machine can make our lives easier. But what will the world look like when algorithms control our hospitals, our roads, our culture, and our national security? What hap­pens to businesses when we automate judgment and eliminate human instinct? And what role will be left for doctors, lawyers, writers, truck drivers, and many others?
Who knows—maybe there’s a bot learning to do your job this minute.


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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Christopher Steiner is the cofounder and co-CEO of Aisle50, a Y Combinator start-up offering online grocery deals. An engineer, Steiner was previously a technology journalist at Forbes magazine and the Chicago Tribune. His first book, $20 Per Gallon, was a national bestseller.

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Verlag
Portfolio Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1591844924
ISBN 13 
9781591844921
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
256
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Portfolio
https://www.wetones.co.uk/

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