The Age of A.I., my second reading in 2022, is a book that addresses the A.I. solutions to current and future problems, the advantages of those implementations and uses, but, at the same time, the concerns regarding the misuse of the technology.
This book was written with the purpose to expose to the public the conversations that three individuals had during the pandemic regarding the future of Artificial Intelligence. Henry Alfred Kissinger, former USA Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, Eric Schmidt, President and former CEO of Alphabet (owner of Google), and Daniel Huttenlocher, an American computer scientist and the inaugural dean of the Schwarzman College of Computing at the MIT, joined in a set of talks to produce this book, that not only exposes some solutions that A.I. addresses, whether they’re already being implemented or they’re just a plan, as well as the concerns that the application of this emerging technology might have, based on personal convictions, facts and also some expectations.
By reading this book, readers will get to know more about the main concepts of A.I., and this will be specially important for those who have a wrong vision regarding what A.I. really is, but the book will also be a starting point for the readers to think more about what will mean to live alongside with an A.I.-powered society.
To be honest, having already in my collection some books about A.I., I must tell I was expecting more from this one. It’s not a bad book, but it’s too superficial and quite repetitive, which makes it boring at a certain point. I still recommend it, but not with the same conviction that I recommend others.
Rating 3.0/5
Read in 2022