Chapter 6
Maybe it’s not until we experience machines that we appreciate the human. The inhumane has not only given us an appetite for the human; it’s teaching us what it is.
—Brian Christian
Although AI has been rightly labeled a prediction machine, the most striking aspect of the AI age is that it is turning us humans into predictable machines.
When it comes to our everyday lives, algorithms have become more predictive because the AI age has confined our everyday lives to repetitive automaton-like behaviors. Press here, look there, drag down or up, focus and unfocus. By construing and constraining our range of behaviors, we have advanced the predictive accuracy of AI ...
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