There is a lot of misinformation swirling around AI. Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor\, authors of "AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do\, What It Can&rsquo\;t Do and How to T ell the Difference"\, can help you make sense of it all. Cut through the c onfusion\, misunderstanding and hype around AI and learn how you can make better decisions about whether and how to use AI at work and home.
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\n\nAbout the Book: \;Confus ed about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You&rsquo\;re not alone. AI is everywhere&mdash\;and few th ings are surrounded by so much hype\, misinformation\, and misunderstandin g. In \;AI Snake Oil\, computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Say as h Kapoor cut through the confusion to give you an essential understanding of how AI works and why it often doesn&rsquo\;t\, where it might be useful or harmful\, and when you should suspect that companies are using AI hype to sell AI snake oil&mdash\;products that don&rsquo\;t work\, and probabl y never will. (Source)
\nAbout the Authors: \;A rvind Narayanan \;is a professor of computer science at Princeton Univ ersity and the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy. H e studies the societal impact of digital technologies\, especially artific ial intelligence\, and has co-authored a textbook on fairness and machine learning. He led the Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Naraya nan&rsquo\;s work was among the first to show how machine learning reflect s cultural stereotypes\, and his doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification. \;His book\, \;AI Snake Oil: What Art ificial Intelligence Can Do\, What It Can&rsquo\;t and How to Tell the Dif ference\, co-written with Say ash Kapoor\, takes readers through the major strains of AI to show what can work well alongside the inherent limitatio ns.
\nSayash Kapoor \;is a computer science Ph.D. candidate at P rinceton University's \;Center for Information Technology Policy \ ;and a co-author of \;AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can D o\, What It Can&rsquo\;t and How to Tell the Difference\, co-written with& nbsp\;Arvind Narayanan. Say ash&rsquo\;s research focuses on the societal impact of AI. He is a recipient of a best paper award at ACM Fact and an i mpact recognition award at ACM CSCW and was included in \;TIME's inaug ural list of the \;100 most influential people in AI\, along with Arvi nd Narayanan.
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