AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference, (Hardcover)

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Essential AI Insights: Provides a crucial understanding of how AI functions, its limitations, and its potential for both utility and harm.
Combating AI Hype: Equips readers to identify and defend against misleading AI claims and products, particularly those marketed as "AI snake oil."
Authoritative Authorship: Written by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, recognized as two of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI.
Critical AI Analysis: Uncovers widespread deceptive claims about AI capabilities and details the significant harms it causes in various sectors like education, medicine, and justice.
Distinguishing AI Types: Explains the key differences between various AI forms and addresses why organizations often fall for ineffective AI solutions.
Publication Details: Hardcover format, published on 2024-09-24, with 360 pages, and ISBN 9780691249131.

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Publication date, September, 2024Author, Arvind NarayananBook format, HardcoverGenre, Computing & InternetPages, 360Age group, Adult

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From two of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI--and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products

Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You're not alone. AI is everywhere--and few things are surrounded by so much hype, misinformation, and misunderstanding. In AI Snake Oil, computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor cut through the confusion to give you an essential understanding of how AI works and why it often doesn't, where it might be useful or harmful, and when you should suspect that companies are using AI hype to sell AI snake oil--products that don't work, and probably never will.

While acknowledging the potential of some AI, such as ChatGPT, AI Snake Oil uncovers rampant misleading claims about the capabilities of AI and describes the serious harms AI is already causing in how it's being built, marketed, and used in areas such as education, medicine, hiring, banking, insurance, and criminal justice. The book explains the crucial differences between types of AI, why organizations are falling for AI snake oil, why AI can't fix social media, why AI isn't an existential risk, and why we should be far more worried about what people will do with AI than about anything AI will do on its own. The book also warns of the dangers of a world where AI continues to be controlled by largely unaccountable big tech companies.

By revealing AI's limits and real risks, AI Snake Oil will help you make better decisions about whether and how to use AI at work and home.

AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference, (Hardcover)
Author: Arvind Narayanan
ISBN: 9780691249131
Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: 2024-09-24
Page Count: 360

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September, 2024

Author

Arvind Narayanan

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Hardcover

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Computing & Internet

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