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Unlike the wheel, combustion engines, or electricity, AI does the thing that humans do best: think. While AI hasn't reproduced the marvelously complex human brain, it has been able to accomplish astonishing things. It has defeated our best human players at games like chess, Go, and Jeopardy!. It's learned to recognize objects and speech. AI tools like ChatGPT can create art and high-quality writing. It's even helped grieving people feel as though...

Describes the development and potential impacts of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, smartphones, brain-computer interface systems, quantum computers, cryptocurrency, and the internet.

At its simplest, Bayes's theorem describes the probability of an event, based on prior knowledge of conditions that might be related to the event. But in Everything Is Predictable, Tom Chivers lays out how it affects every aspect of our lives. He explains why highly accurate screening tests can lead to false positives and how a failure to account for it in court has put innocent people in jail. But its influence goes far beyond practical applications....