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Customer Review
- Reviewed in Canada on October 25, 2024Yuri Noah Harari has to be one of the greatest story tellers today. I fell in love with his work Sapiens a few years ago as it opened my eyes to so much of human history that I was not aware of. A work I feel that should be taught in the school systems. This work, Nexus, is like that one only about the emergence of AI and how it has slowly evolved and continues to grow, becoming a part of society and the potential pluses and pitfalls that will come along with it.
I, myself, am learning more and more about Artificial Intelligence and to be honest I would consider this a core work if you are looking to understand what A.I. is and where it could go. The depth of knowledge that the author consumed in writing this is staggering and his organization and referencing of those works is done masterfully.
I was intrigued by just about everything in this work and here are some tidbits just minimally referenced:
- Referring to the difference between Intelligence and Consciousness. An obvious comparison but I liked how he laid it out, I sort of gave it a variation though. He referred to an example of Intelligence as the means to be able to bring followers and subscribers to your channel to which I immediately thought, whereas conscience is how you feel about doing what was necessary to bring those followers to your channel.
- The social credit system environment. He made a good point of if you have that in place in your society, say it was in the context of social credit for a religion. If someone gets max scores how do you know if the person did so because they truly believe in the religion or they just know how to play the game?
- Finally, self-correction as what is needed to be in place to save us from A.I. getting away from humanity (my interpretation). Yes, for when there is no self-correction (as he brings up in the book) things can get away and go too far sometimes too quickly.
Nexus is a true masterwork in my mind. I will read over and study this book. I have made note of many of the reference books and plan to get/read a number of them as well. More than 5 stars.
