Sunday, January 30, 2022

50 Things Every AI Working With Humans Should Know, by Ken Liu

It seems like the other reviewers did not connect to this story but I really did. I think it may not be clear how much you have to know about AI development in order to write this story the way he did. The segment about including weird "spice" that looks like garbage in a training dataset is, well, Uncanny. And for me many of those 50 things an AI needs to know approach profundity. I compare it with work from Ted Chiang, and in my mind that is a high compliment.

My Goodreads Review

No comments:

Post a Comment

Semiosis, by Sue Burke

I think I liked this better than most reviewers. What I got out of it was an exploration of how human colonists would communicate and share ...