Unveiling AI's Paradoxes

Unveiling AI's Paradoxes

I read the best book on AI and learnt a powerful insight 👇

Xmas 🎄🧠 : a perfect moment to retreat from the ever-spinning AI news cycle and read a book.

đŸ‘ïž I dived into Melanie Mitchell's "Artificial Intelligence - A Guide for Thinking Humans."

It's an amazing book to really understand AI history, performance and limitations. And get perspective on the matter. Even ChatGPT recommends it first when prompted :)

The insight I remember most vividly ?

👉👉 "Easy things are hard"

AI flips the script on what we consider easy and hard. 🔄

Humans excel at certain tasks effortlessly. Like picking a friendly face in a crowd. Or understanding a scene from a picture. Or understanding a conversation in a noisy bar.

For AI it took years to get a decent result. And it's still far from perfect. Prone to lots of biases, even massive mistakes.

Yet it can outperform us on tasks we find complex. Give it a chessboard or go board? Boom. It beats grandmaster since years. đŸ€ŻđŸ€–

It's an eye-opener on how "alien" AI really is. On why self driving cars might not be around the corner. Or why it might take years until we solve hallucinations or bias properly.

2024 is the year of maturity with AI. There are score of issues we can solve with AI 🏆 To do so, let's make sure we have enough understanding and perspective.

Any other book you recommend on AI ? 👇


Text drafted through a chat with an AI model. Visual: Stable Diffusion or DALL-E 3.
Transformation and final editing by Jean-Paul Paoli.