Peste 4 milioane de titluri în engleză și alte limbi! Descoperă-ți noua poveste astăzi!

Află starea comenzii

Contactați-ne

Prophecy

Name: Prophecy
Brand: Swift Press
SKU: 9781800757240
Price: 114.7 RON
Availability: InStock

Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI

Autor: Carissa Veliz

Limbă:

Legare: Copertă tare

Editura: Swift Press

Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern

Expediem în 3-5 zile

114.70 lei

Today’s computer scientists play the same role as the oracles of the ancient world and the astrologe...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Carissa Veliz

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2026

Pagini

384

EAN

9781800757240

Enbook ID

51478354

Editura

Swift Press

Greutate

592

Dimensiuni

153 x 234

Descriere completă

Today’s computer scientists play the same role as the oracles of the ancient world and the astrologers of the Middle Ages. Modern predictions not only advise on war, crop output, and marriages, but algorithms and statisticians also now determine whether we can get a loan, a job, an apartment, or an organ transplant. And when we cede ground to these predictions, we lose control of our own lives. In this powerful, refreshing new look at the many ways prediction shapes our everyday lives, University of Oxford professor Carissa Véliz explains how putting too much stock in others’ predictions makes us vulnerable to charlatans, con artists, dubious technology, and self-deception. Examining a wide range of subjects both personal and societal, including medicine, climate, technology, society, and others, Véliz uncovers a number of insights: predictions about humans tend to be self-fulfilling; more data doesn’t guarantee better outcomes; AI is more likely to increase risk than decrease it; and a free and robust society requires not more prediction, but better preparation. Véliz argues in this incisive and bracingly original book that the main promise of prediction is not knowledge of the future, but rather power over others. Prophecy is an invitation to defy those orders and live life on our own terms.

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Prophecy

Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI

Informații despre carte

Descriere completă

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și