Prediction Machines, Updated and Expanded

Preface to the Updated Edition

It has been five years since we were working on the first edition of Prediction Machines. That book was written just five years after University of Toronto researchers were able to demonstrate that deep learning methods could significantly outperform people in describing images. That moment marked the new and perhaps most significant advances in artificial intelligence to date. Over the course of the decade, AI has moved from nowhere to all over the place. We can see many of these advances—such as how our phones can recognize our faces even with glasses or masks on. Others we do not see, such as the use of AI to more easily assess the quality of goods shipped on international supply chains. Now is a good opportunity ...