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jurgenappelo's review against another edition
4.0
A bit repetitive but great to see the variety of opinions from the world's leading experts. And kudos for not interviewing Elon Musk.
sarthak1682's review against another edition
3.0
I don’t understand the emphasis of the Conversations. Yes, Economic Consequences are important, so are existential Concern. But What about Scientific Concerns? Maybe he could’ve asked, in a detailed way, what are they currently working on. This seems to be 30 Wiki Entries read out loud.
Besides, very US-UK focused, where are Schmidhuber and Schölkopf? Where are the likes of at least a couple Chinese Scientists, even for the sake of Representation? It’s pretty clear the Book was meant for Sale and not honest Inquiry.
I think Pearl, Hassabis, Hinton, Bengio and Brooks were great. Everything else, not so much!
Besides, very US-UK focused, where are Schmidhuber and Schölkopf? Where are the likes of at least a couple Chinese Scientists, even for the sake of Representation? It’s pretty clear the Book was meant for Sale and not honest Inquiry.
I think Pearl, Hassabis, Hinton, Bengio and Brooks were great. Everything else, not so much!
icallaci's review against another edition
3.0
Meh. A compilation of oral interviews, transcribed from audio recordings. Because very little editing was done, they are sometimes repetitive or vague or assume a level of knowledge beyond my comprehension. A fair amount of biographical information is presented, such as where so-and-so went to school, what degrees he or she earned, etc. Some AI terms are sorta, kinda explained, but a lot of terms are left undefined or underdefined, so I did a lot of searching on Google (yes, I see the irony, lol). I ran across a couple of interesting ideas I hadn't thought about, but I came away knowing very little more than I did before. I would have liked something a little more focused, rather than simply a list of who is working on speech recognition or self-driving cars or healthcare applications.
shinyhero's review
4.0
3.75/5.0.
This book is a collection of interviews with AI experts. The selection of the interviewees is fairly comprehensive. However, because it is a collection of interviews, this book gets a little bit repetitive when the same questions are asked.
This book is a collection of interviews with AI experts. The selection of the interviewees is fairly comprehensive. However, because it is a collection of interviews, this book gets a little bit repetitive when the same questions are asked.
pbokelly's review against another edition
5.0
Anyone interested in the past, present, and possible future of AI will find this book very useful.
Author synopsis: https://medium.com/@MFordFuture/the-truth-about-ai-from-the-people-building-it-74f95b08b6c8
Reviews/interviews:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114362/ai-artificial-general-intelligence-when-achieved-martin-ford-book
https://www.axios.com/artificial-intelligence-disagreements-machine-learning-d26ef884-b415-43c6-aff2-d17a05483389.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamfalcon/2018/11/30/this-is-the-future-of-ai-according-to-23-world-leading-ai-experts/
Author synopsis: https://medium.com/@MFordFuture/the-truth-about-ai-from-the-people-building-it-74f95b08b6c8
Reviews/interviews:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114362/ai-artificial-general-intelligence-when-achieved-martin-ford-book
https://www.axios.com/artificial-intelligence-disagreements-machine-learning-d26ef884-b415-43c6-aff2-d17a05483389.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamfalcon/2018/11/30/this-is-the-future-of-ai-according-to-23-world-leading-ai-experts/
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