The AI Delusion
Gary Smith
Reviews and Awards
"[A] remarkable read ... This book so deserves to be widely read." - Jonathan Cowie, Concatenation
"The AI Delusion is a remarkable book: deeply thoughtful but highly readable, full of practical examples to illustrate Smith's powerful computational critique of the proliferation of AI, big data, and machine learning in our daily lives. Truly essential reading." - Frank Pasquale, author The Black Box Society
"Big data is increasingly being used to make big decisions, and that's a good thing, as long as we keep aware of how things can go wrong, as Gary Smith explains in this fun new book." - Andrew Gelman, Director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University
"Professor Gary Smith demonstrates why artificial intelligence doesn't live up to the hype. He uses a wide variety of real-world examples to illustrate the risks of taking humans out of the decision-making process." - Karl J. Meyer, Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
"You won't need a degree in linear algebra or multivariate calculus to understand Gary Smith's The AI Delusion — a no-nonsense look at the limitations of Big Data." - Andrew Sloves, Former Managing Director at JP Morgan
"Data professionals and consumers can benefit from Smith's entertaining and accessible demonstration that more computing power and more data do not imply more intelligence. We need to have more confidence in our human intellect. Humans may have common sense and an appreciation of context. Computers uniformly have none." - Eric Engberg, Data Scientist and Software Engineer, Wells Fargo
"Prof Smith delivers a strong defense of the scientific method - theory before data - and clearly demonstrates the limitations of 'AI' and 'Big Data'." - Chris Nelson, CFO Universal Studios Hollywood
