Bøker av Emmanuel Maggiori

Artificial intelligence is everywhere-powering news feeds, curating search results and invisibly steering our lives. We talk to it and, increasingly, it talks back. And sometimes its answers seem eerily smart.... Until they don't.Billions of dollars have been poured into AI yet it keeps surprising us with its epic fails-confidently wrong chatbots, inadvertently racist photo apps, well-meaning autonomous cars that fail to recognize traffic cones.Industry insider Emmanuel Maggiori cuts through the hype, revealing the deceptively simple mechanisms behind AI's impressive results-and its spectacular blunders.Learn the dark secret of the AI industry-how unreasonable expectations, shady practices and outright lying have inflated a bubble of monumental proportions.Read Smart Until It's Dumb to discover how AI really works, why it's not always so smart, and why the AI bubble is about to burst.***Emmanuel Maggiori, PhD, is a 10-year AI industry insider, specialized in machine learning and scientific computing. He helps companies build complex software. He has developed AI for a wide variety of applications, from extracting objects from satellite images to packaging holiday deals for millions of travelers every day.

Why is it so hard to communicate with techies? Why was your tech start-up product much harder to build than you initially thought? Why were you promised that AI would be the solution to everything, yet it didn''t work for your business?This book is a crash course in computers, the Internet and AI. It will help you speak with techies more effectively and understand the challenges in building software products. Written for businesspeople, entrepreneurs, founders, and anyone eager to learn more about tech, this book tells you:What computers can do and how coders program them;Why some simple problems are hard to solve with software;How the Internet works and what it takes to build a Web app;What the buzzwords big data and the cloud are really about;How AI works and how to make sure it doesn''t learn nonsense;The limitations of AI and whether you should use it."The basics of computing, clearly explained." -Dermot Turing (Author of Prof Alan Turing Decoded)