Automate This: How Algorithms Took Over Our Markets, Our Jobs, and the WorldPenguin, 30 Ağu 2012 - 256 sayfa The rousing story of the last gasp of human agency and how today’s best and brightest minds are endeavoring to put an end to it.
In this fascinating, frightening book, Christopher Steiner tells the story of how algorithms took over—and shows why the “bot revolution” is about to spill into every aspect of our lives, often silently, without our knowledge. The May 2010 “Flash Crash” exposed Wall Street’s reliance on trading bots to the tune of a 998-point market drop and $1 trillion in vanished market value. But that was just the beginning. In Automate This, we meet bots that are driving cars, penning haiku, and writing music mistaken for Bach’s. They listen in on our customer service calls and figure out what Iran would do in the event of a nuclear standoff. There are algorithms that can pick out the most cohesive crew of astronauts for a space mission or identify the next Jeremy Lin. Some can even ingest statistics from baseball games and spit out pitch-perfect sports journalism indistinguishable from that produced by humans. The interaction of man and machine can make our lives easier. But what will the world look like when algorithms control our hospitals, our roads, our culture, and our national security? What happens to businesses when we automate judgment and eliminate human instinct? And what role will be left for doctors, lawyers, writers, truck drivers, and many others? Who knows—maybe there’s a bot learning to do your job this minute. |
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THE BOT TOP 40 | |
THE SECRET HIGHWAYS OF BOTS | |
GAMING THE SYSTEM | |
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WALL STREET VERSUS SILICON VALLEY | |
THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THE ALGORITHMS AND THEIR | |