Zusammenfassungen
It used to be that to diagnose an illness, interpret legal documents, analyze foreign policy, or write a newspaper article you needed a human being with specific skills—and maybe an advanced degree or two. These days, high-level tasks are increasingly being handled by algorithms that can do precise work not only with speed but also with nuance. These “bots” started with human programming and logic, but now their reach extends beyond what their creators ever expected.
In this fascinating, frightening book, Christopher Steiner tells the story of how algorithms took over—and shows why the “bot revolution” is about to spill into every aspect of our lives, often silently, without our knowledge.
The May 2010 “Flash Crash” exposed Wall Street’s reliance on trading bots to the tune of a 998-point market drop and $1 trillion in vanished market value. But that was just the beginning. In Automate This, we meet bots that are driving cars, penning haiku, and writing music mistaken for Bach’s. They listen in on our customer service calls and figure out what Iran would do in the event of a nuclear standoff. There are algorithms that can pick out the most cohesive crew of astronauts for a space mission or identify the next Jeremy Lin. Some can even ingest statistics from baseball games and spit out pitch-perfect sports journalism indistinguishable from that produced by humans.
The interaction of man and machine can make our lives easier. But what will the world look like when algorithms control our hospitals, our roads, our culture, and our national security? What happens to businesses when we automate judgment and eliminate human instinct? And what role will be left for doctors, lawyers, writers, truck drivers, and many others?
Who knows—maybe there’s a bot learning to do your job this minute.
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Personen KB IB clear | Erik Brynjolfsson , Douglas Hofstadter , Stanley Kubrick , Andrew McAfee , Howard Rheingold | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Begriffe KB IB clear | Algorithmusalgorithm , Automatautomat , machine learning , Maschinemachine , Programmierenprogramming , Statistikstatistics , Watson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Zeitleiste
10 Erwähnungen
- To Save Everything, Click Here - The Folly of Technological Solutionism (Evgeny Morozov) (2013)
- The Zero Marginal Cost Society - The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (Jeremy Rifkin) (2014)
- Die granulare Gesellschaft - Wie das Digitale unsere Wirklichkeit auflöst (Christoph Kucklick) (2014)
- Inventing the Future - Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams) (2015)
- Cyber-Proletariat - Global Labour in the Digital Vortex (Nick Dyer-Witheford) (2015)
- Homo Deus - Eine Geschichte von Morgen (Yuval Noah Harari) (2015)
- The Future of the Professions - How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts (Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind) (2016)
- Total berechenbar - Wenn Algorithmen für uns entscheiden (Christoph Dröser) (2016)
- Art education in the post-digital era - Experiential construction of knowledge through creative coding (Tomi Slotte Dufva) (2018)
- Metaphors of code - Structuring and broadening the discussion on teaching children to code (Tomi Slotte Dufva, Mikko Dufva) (2016)
- Fachdidaktik Medien und Informatik: Professionalisierung der Medienpädagogik in der Schweiz (Martin Hermida, Regina Schmid) (2019)
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Bibliographisches
Beat und dieses Buch
Beat hat dieses Buch während seiner Zeit am Institut für Medien und Schule (IMS) ins Biblionetz aufgenommen. Beat besitzt kein physisches, aber ein digitales Exemplar. (das er aber aus Urheberrechtsgründen nicht einfach weitergeben darf).