Thinking with Machines : The Brave New World of AI.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dhar, Vasant.

Contributor:

Galloway, Scott.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2025.

Summary:

We are entering a brave new world, thanks to AI.We must shape this future to the advantage of everyone, and not just a select few.Thinking with Machines: The Brave New World of AI tells the story of AI from its very beginnings through the eyes of Vasant Dhar, currently Robert A Miller Professor at the Stern School of Business, and Professor of.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword

Preface: Ground Zero: AI at an Inflection Point

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Paradigm Shifts in AI

The Paradigm Shifts in AI

Chapter 1 Why are You Asking Me that Question?: Reasoning Machines

Chapter 2 Patterns Emerge Before Reasons for them Become Apparent: The Shift to Machine Learning

Prediction Machines

Expert Systems

Machine Learning

Getting Lucky on the Side (a La Mick Jagger)

Attention Older Women in the Northeast

Dhar's Conjecture

Putting it All Together

Chapter 3 Prediction on Wall Street: Making Sense of Patterns

Making Money with Algorithms

Volatility Matters

Sense-Making

Chapter 4 The Edge: Compounding the Magic

Where's the Edge?

AI and Amplification

Taking More Swings at the Ball

Chapter 5 Newman in Control of von Neumann: From Brawn to Brain

The Paradigm Shifts Again

The AI Disruption

The Paradigm Shifts Toward General Purpose

From Brawn to brain

Chapter 6 General Intelligence on Autopilot: The New Brain-Perceptive Machines

The Path to General Intelligence

Perceptive Self-Supervised Learning Machines

From Machine Learning to Deep Learning

From Deep Learning to General Intelligence

Learning What Matters

The Scaling Laws of General Intelligence

Chapter 7 Obsolete Humans: Sensing Machines

Smelling Disease

Expertise, AI, and Human Obsolescence

Expert Systems are Already Inside ChatGPT

The Day I Chased My Dog: And Nothing was Learned

Better Score Keeping With AI

Entrenched Specialization Bias

AI + Humans?

Chapter 8 Agents: Thinking Machines - The Damodaran Bot

Unusual Humans

Is the LLM Sufficient?

Agents.

DBOT Agents

BYD Valuation

Damodaran's Critique of DBOT

Nvidia

Superforecasters and the Human Edge

The Rise of humans

Chapter 9 Truth: Additional Views Will be Considered

Hallucinations

Truth in Language

Truth in Artificial Intelligence

When Truth Becomes Shaky for AI

Where AI Shines: Sight, Sound, Smell

The Predictability Continuum

The Risks of General Intelligence: Machines With No Purpose

Putting tt All Together

Chapter 10 Trust: When Should We Trust the AI?

Complete Trust

Shades of Gray

When is it Safe to Trust AI?

The Trust Heatmap

Look Ma, No Hands

No Highway

Trusting AI Doctors

Trusting AI Judges

Trusting AI Trading Machines

The Trust Picture

Chapter 11 Governance: Will We govern AI or Will AI Govern Us?

2001 Lessons

The Implications of "Unknown Unknowns"

Health and AI

Democracy and AI

AI in Government

Laws for AI

The Embodied Machine

Can a Less Intelligent Species Control a More Intelligent One?

Appendix

Chapter 2: An Example of A Good "Building Block"

Chapter 8: BYD in 2024: Riding The EV Wave or Struggling Through the Competitive Storm?

Review Historical Performance

Forecast Future Performance

Sensitivity Analysis

Macro-Economic Factors

Valuation Analysis

Strategic Investments and Market Expansion

Competitive Landscape and Market Dynamics

Notes

Brave New World Podcast Episodes by Vasant Dhar: Chronological Episode Guide

Brave New World Podcast Episodes by Vasant Dhar: Episodes by Theme

Index

EULA.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781394359066

OCLC:

1547911563