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 …
While investigating cookies, small amounts of data left on browsers by websites visited by users, Ms Murgia discovered a profile of herself in astonishing detail — intrusive, and, because it was valuable to anyone who wanted to sell her anything, exploitative. Then there’s your identity — how AI systems identify people from, say, a still from a video of a …
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 …
In the past year, there has been a widespread, wobbly feeling of the ground shifting beneath our feet. And will so-called knowledge workers such as lawyers, journalists, consultants and creative professionals still have work in a few years’ time, when their jobs could be completed by generative AI to a good enough standard? The outputs of AI software today can …
