The AI Con How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want

A forthcoming Bodley Head publication brought to you by Penguin Random House, publishing in May 2025.

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Dr Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington. Her work, including the touchstone ‘Stochastic Parrots’ paper, brings a linguistic perspective to how large language models work and why the illusion they produce is so compelling. In 2023 she was included in the inaugural TIME100 AI list of most influential people in AI.Dr Alex Hanna is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) and a former senior research scientist on Google's Ethical AI team. She is an outspoken critic of the tech industry and a proponent of community-based uses of technology.

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The blizzard of excitement, misinformation and pure hype around AI has driven many of us to want an honest guide to both its promises and its limitations as well as its bizarre history. If, like me, you're one of those many, you need to read this book. It's clear, objective and comprehensible. It's essential reading Brian Eno

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• Autori: Emily Bender, Alex Hanna, Emily M Bender, Emily M. Bender, Bender Emily M.
• Editore: Bodley Head Ltd
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 22.05.2025
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Società
• EAN: 9781847928627
• ISBN: 978-1-84792-862-7
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.4 x 23.2 x 2.2 cm
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