Overview
An urgent book on generative artificial interlligence from one of the top US journalists in the tech field, exploring the risk and benefits looming.
Full Product Details
Author: Jeremy Kahn
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 23.10cm
Weight: 0.499kg
ISBN: 9781668053324
ISBN 10: 1668053322
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 09 July 2024
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""Fortune journalist Kahn expounds in his shrewd first book on how AI is likely to change art, education, and the workplace.....Striking a balance between bullishness and caution, Kahn sets out a helpful roadmap for harnessing the promise of AI while navigating its perils. The result is one of the more convincing assessments of how AI will transform society."" --Publisher's Weekly ""Kahn, who reports on emerging technologies for Fortune magazine, brings a great deal of expertise to this discussion of artificial intelligence."" --Kirkus Reviews ""In this smart, thoughtful, illuminating book, Jeremy Kahn reveals the myriad ways AI will influence the way we live, for better or worse, and, importantly, offers prescriptions for subduing its darker side. Mastering Al is masterful.""--JOE NOCERA, coauthor of All the Devils Are Here and The Big Fail ""Written with authority and clarity, Mastering Al is easily the best exploration to date on the perils and promise of AI.--ASHLEE VANCE, author of When the Heavens Went on Sale and Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future ""A timely and urgent exploration of Al's dizzying acceleration, and of all the ways this new technology can either improve our society or totally upend it.""--BRAD STONE, New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store and Amazon Unbound ""A wonderful history of the development of artificial intelligence, a thorough examination of its benefits to humanity as well as its grave dangers, and a manifesto of sorts for how we should proceed, Mastering Al is a must-read. It's hard to put down.""--BETHANY McLEAN, coauthor of The Smartest Guys in the Room, All the Devils Are Here, and The Big Fail"
Author Information
Jeremy Kahn is an award-winning journalist for Fortune magazine, where he covers artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. In addition to cover stories and features, he writes Fortune's weekly Eye on AI newsletter and cochairs its Brainstorm AI technology conferences. Previously, he wrote about technology, including AI, for Bloomberg. His writing on a range of subjects has also appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Smithsonian magazine, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, and Slate. He has reported from India and much of South Asia, the Ivory Coast, Iraq, Venezuela, and most countries in Western Europe. He is a former managing editor of The New Republic. An Ohio native, he now lives with his family in Oxford, England.
