The AI Delusion
Gary Smith
Also available as:
$54.95 AUD
- ISBN:
- 9780198824305
- Published:
- 28 Aug 2018
- Availability:
- 0
Gary Smith argues that we should not be intimidated into thinking that computers are infallible, that data-mining is knowledge discovery, that black boxes should be trusted. Let's trust ourselves to judge whether statistical patterns make sense and are therefore potentially useful, or are merely coincidental and therefore fleeting and useless. Human reasoning is fundamentally different from artificial intelligence, which is why it is needed more than ever.
1: Intelligent or Obedient?
2: Doing Without Thinking
3: Symbols Without Context
4: Bad Data
5: Patterns in Randomness
6: If You Torture the Data Long Enough
7: The Kitchen Sink
8: Old Wine in New Bottles
9: Take Two Aspirin
10: Beat the Market I
11: Beat the Market II
12: We're Watching You
Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, Pomona College
Gary Smith is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and was an Assistant Professor there for seven years. He has won two teaching awards and written (or co-authored) more than eighty academic papers and twelve books including Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie With Statistics, What the Luck? The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives, and Money Machine: The Surprisingly Simple Power of Value Investing. His research has been featured by Bloomberg Radio Network, CNBC, The Brian Lehrer Show, Forbes, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Motley Fool, Newsweek, and BusinessWeek.