How Data Happened
Book description
From facial recognition-capable of checking us onto flights or identifying undocumented residents-to automated decision systems that inform everything from who gets loans to who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn't just appear: they are part of a history that…
Why read it?
1 author picked How Data Happened as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Finding yourself overwhelmed, confused, or just plain curious about artificial intelligence?
Then this is the book for you! Wiggins and Jones provide a lucid, comprehensive overview of how we arrived at our current data-saturated times and how artificial intelligence emerged from the political climate of the Cold War as one attempt in a longer history of the ties between political power and information.
I found myself constantly surprised and enlightened by the history of data sketched out by Wiggins and Jones!
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