The story of artificial intelligence is not the story of rockstar CEOs and Silicon Valley geeks. This is something Madhumita Murgia underscores both subtly and undeniably in her debut book, Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI. Murgia, 36, the first-ever AI editor at the Financial Times, UK, does this through stories about how AI is already affecting ordinary …
Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. In reviews, we read Madhumita Murgia’s Code Dependent, Yaris Varoufakis’s Technofeudalism, Shinie Antony’s new novel and more. it revealed the murky world of ‘data brokers’ – shadowy companies that collect data about our online lives and turn them into saleable profiles of who we are today, and who we will …
If you have ever asked Alexa to play a song, Siri to make a call, or Google to map a route, then you have engaged with an artificial intelligence system. Madhumita Murgia’s Code Dependent lifts the veil hanging over humans that are building the base for AI’s super structure to stand on. Her book offers a cross-section view of tech’s …
