A Human's Guide To Machine Intelligence

This book has a great style of writing. Introduces topics by providing stories, history, and a lot of thought provoking questions. This is a book for everyone, not overly technical.

Good insightful, any one can read and understand

After reading the e-book I bought the physical copy to keep it on my desk for reference. Should be mandatory reading in grade 12 or in undergraduate studies, so that a wider group of people understands how AI works / does not work, and what we need to keep in mind when forming policies and rules around this thing.

Arrived on time and in good condition

American inventor Benjamin Franklin was beaten by the first robotic chess playing machine. The machine was invented by Hungarian inventor Wolfgang Kempelen in 1770, and inside its array of clanking gears, levers, pulleys and mechanisms - was intelligence. Which brings me to this important book written by Kartik Hosanagar.Professor Hosanagar’s book, “A Human’s Guide To Machine Intelligence,” provides an eloquent overview and simplified explanation on the impact algorithms and AI are having on our lives. It’s an important book for a few reasons. As Hosanagar points out, algorithms are already commonly occurring and are having a real impact on many lives, and their applications are dramatically increasing. Already Machine Learning and AI are having a significant influence (currently approximately 33% of purchases on Amazon and 80% of recommendations on Netflix are influenced by algorithms) and the applications for Machine Learning and AI are increasing dramatically. The topic in general is all too often ignored by many people as being too complicated or difficult to understand. In his book, Hosanagar successfully educates and informs the reader by demystifying the buzzwords and technology (an algorithm is simply instruction, “like a recipe for an omelette”), and provides insights concerning what new AI applications are coming in the near future. Concurrent with these new tools, he describes suggestions as to how we can best manage them.As for Benjamin Franklin’s chess loss, it was discovered years later that the chess playing machine was a hoax, and in fact had a concealed human chess master hiding inside the mechanical housing! Read Hosanagar’s book and learn how algorithms are still influenced by humans (although there’s no one physically hiding inside) and how we can stay in control.