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\ and executive education clients include Google, American Express, Citigroup and\
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\ SunTrust Bank. Hosanagar earned his PhD in Management Science and Information\
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\ Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.\n See all Product description"
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- amazon_product_detail_description : ' '
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+ amazon_product_detail_description : ' A Wharton professor and tech entrepreneur examines
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+ how algorithms and artificial intelligence are starting to run every aspect of our
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+ lives, and how we can shape the way they impact us
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+ Through the technology embedded in almost every major tech platform and every web-enabled
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+ device, algorithms and the artificial intelligence that underlies them make a staggering
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+ number of everyday decisions for us, from what products we buy, to where we decide
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+ to eat, to how we consume our news, to whom we date, and how we find a job. We'' ve
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+ even delegated life-and-death decisions to algorithms--decisions once made by doctors,
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+ pilots, and judges. In his new book, Kartik Hosanagar surveys the brave new world
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+ of algorithmic decision-making and reveals the potentially dangerous biases they
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+ can give rise to as they increasingly run our lives. He makes the compelling case
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+ that we need to arm ourselves with a better, deeper, more nuanced understanding
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+ of the phenomenon of algorithmic thinking. And he gives us a route in, pointing
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+ out that algorithms often think a lot like their creators--that is, like you and
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+ me.
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+ Hosanagar draws on his experiences designing algorithms professionally--as well
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+ as on history, computer science, and psychology--to explore how algorithms work
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+ and why they occasionally go rogue, what drives our trust in them, and the many
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+ ramifications of algorithmic decision-making. He examines episodes like Microsoft'' s
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+ chatbot Tay, which was designed to converse on social media like a teenage girl,
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+ but instead turned sexist and racist; the fatal accidents of self-driving cars;
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+ and even our own common, and often frustrating, experiences on services like Netflix
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+ and Amazon. A Human'' s Guide to Machine Intelligence is an entertaining and provocative
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+ look at one of the most important developments of our time and a practical user'' s
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+ guide to this first wave of practical artificial intelligence.'
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amazon_product_details : ' Product details
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Hardcover: 272 pages
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