Artificial intelligence: the limits of the possible

The book of an authoritative expert in the field of computer technology is a call for sanity. All her conscious life, Meredith, Brussard heard that technology will save the world, but today, continuing to admire them and participate in their creation, it relate to the future not so optimistic. Universal enthusiasm for the use of computer technology, in its conviction, has already led to a huge number of unfinished solutions in the design of digital systems. Speaking against technoshinism and social illusions about the saving role of technology, Brussard goes on a trip to the computer world: risking life, sits behind the wheel of an experimental car with an autopilot, involves artificial intelligence to find out why students cannot pass standardized tests, uses machine learning, calculating The probability of survival of the Titanic passengers as a date-journalist creates a program for finding fraud in financing candidates for US presidency. Only understanding the limits of computer technology, Brussard claims, we will be able to dispose of them to make the world better