![]() ![]() Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. To order a copy for £16.33 (RRP £18.99) go to or call 03. Hello World is indispensable preparation for the moral quandaries of a world run by code, and with the unfailingly entertaining Hannah Fry as our guide, we. Because, as Fry says, “the future doesn’t just happen. It’s time we stand face-to-digital-face with the true powers and limitations of the algorithms that already automate important decisions in healthcare, transportation, crime, and commerce. It’s time to pull back the curtain on the algorithms that shape our lives. And if we don’t understand it, those difficult questions will be answered by those who do – pharmaceutical companies, malign governments and the like. “We have a tendency to overtrust anything we don’t understand,” Fry says. This book illustrates why good science writers are essential. And, in the case of Facebook and users’ data, “how cheaply we were bought”. Hello, World Aleksandra Szmidt (Illustrations) 3. But working together, human and AI-machine can be the perfect team.įry makes a convincing case for “the urgent need for algorithmic regulation”, and wants the public to understand the compromises we are making. “We have somehow managed to be simultaneously dismissive” of algorithms, “intimidated by them and in awe of their capabilities”, she argues. In one chapter, she explains how a man who nearly followed his satnav off a cliff is similar to the chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, and to voters being manipulated by social media. Fry, a mathematician, is a passionate advocate for maths and technology, but keen that we don’t put too much faith in them. ![]()
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