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Prediction Machines
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Prediction Machines

by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb
April 2018
Beginner
272 pages
6h 20m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Beyond Business

Much popular discussion about AI concerns issues of society rather than business. Many are not sure that AI will be a good thing. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been one of the most consistent, high-profile, and experienced individuals sounding alarm bells: “I have exposure to the very cutting-edge AI, and I think people should be really concerned about it … I keep sounding the alarm bell, but until people see robots going down the street killing people, they don’t know how to react, because it seems so ethereal.”1

Another learned expert with an opinion on this is renowned psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman. Among non-academics, he may be best known for his 2011 book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. In 2017, at a conference ...

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ISBN: 9781633695689