Amazon Bestseller
Silver Medal Winner for Best Emerging Trends / AI Book in the 2022 Axiom Business Book Awards
Evil Robots, Killer Computers, and Other Myths
explains in simple terms and without any advanced mathematics, how AI technology works, why intelligent robots will never be built, and how other negative impacts of AI can be controlled.
You’ll learn how AI systems work including…
The IBM Watson computer that beat the Jeopardy! champions
The technology underlying the Cambridge Analytica scandal
The Netflix and Amazon recommendation engines
Facial recognition systems
Chatbots like Siri and Alexa
Google Translate
The Microsoft system that reads better than humans
Deepfakes and fake news
You will also learn why none of these systems will lead to intelligent robots.
From Forbes.com:
“Shwartz points out that many people are concerned that intelligent robots will be able to read manuals, take courses, and eliminate all our jobs. Fortunately, this is science fiction… It would take a huge breakthrough to create intelligent robots, and today’s AI researchers have only vague ideas about how to create such a breakthrough. Such a breakthrough is about as likely as time travel.”
From Kirkus Reviews:
“Despite his subject’s forbidding technicality, Shwartz writes with unwavering clarity in a book that will be accessible to a wide audience. A thoughtfully cautious appraisal of AI and its promise.”
From Midwest Book Review:
“…should be required reading as a basic primer for any science and technology student interested in AI development and history.”
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EVIL ROBOTS, KILLER COMPUTERS, AND OTHER MYTHS
The Truth About AI and the Future of Humanity
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STEVE SHWARTZ
About The Author
Steve Shwartz uses his unique perspective as an early AI researcher and statistician to both explain how AI works in simple terms, to explain why people shouldn’t worry about intelligent robots taking over the world, and to explain the steps we need to take as a society to minimize the negative impacts of AI and maximize the positive impacts.