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Smart man! 🔪🦪

The WRITING!!! 🫨

“What began, centuries ago, as a healthy safeguard against projection had become an insidious contributor to human exceptionalism...“ 🤨🙎🏼‍♂️

This is a tough one for me to review. It's a speculative science fiction with a lot to say about AI and AI evolution/development in a futuristic setting.

I really liked the contrast between the AI and the human characters and their growth as the story unfolds. At times, the pace of this book is rather slow, and a few times, I wanted to put it aside. However, the ending was worth sticking with this one, and why this is a pick for me.

This book is important. It‘s also A LOT. It goes way back in time to how we gathered and why ( we love a unifying narrative) and all the ways those narratives have caused us harm or to do harm. We are the smartest and dumbest of creatures. It all leads up to the creation of AI and the good and bad it can and will bring. We need to create self correcting strategies. We need to fund education. We need to start yesterday.

I‘m doing a deep dive on reading books about AI, and this one is fantastic for explaining the different kinds of technology referred to as AI, how it works and was created, what it can do and what it can‘t. Highly recommend.

(Image: batik by Lene Wojcik)

Building away. YNH is talking about how computer algorithms can go awry and referencing Facebook's involvement in spreading lies and misinformation against the Rohingya people. I read about this in Maria Ressa's How to Stand up to a Dictator. What's awful is even when people called out the lies and called on FB to stop the algorithms, the damage was done. CBC spoke this week about how easy and cheap it is to buy groups on FB with followers 😢

Starting a new set

Read the first two, still two to read!
Loving the dry humor, lots of action in such a short book. #murderbotdiaries#marthawells#scifi#quickreads#firstpost

“when rich white men did all the talking it was easier to reach agreements” 🤮 my little flower arrangement is complete and bringing me joy ( I put pansies in my front planters but I‘m going to have to bring them in tonight #stormbrewing)