{"id":15833,"date":"2024-09-10T06:37:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T04:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/10\/nexus-a-brief-history-of-information-networks-from-the-stone-age-to-ai-by-yuval-noah-harari-review-rage-against-the-machine\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T06:37:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T04:37:19","slug":"nexus-a-brief-history-of-information-networks-from-the-stone-age-to-ai-by-yuval-noah-harari-review-rage-against-the-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/10\/nexus-a-brief-history-of-information-networks-from-the-stone-age-to-ai-by-yuval-noah-harari-review-rage-against-the-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari review \u2013 rage against the machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

The author of the bestselling Sapiens offers a penetrating critique of the insidious dangers of machine learning and its capacity to manipulate the truth<\/p>\n

What jumps to mind when you think about the impending AI apocalypse? If you\u2019re partial to sci-fi movie cliches, you may envisage killer robots (with or without thick Austrian accents) rising up to terminate their hubristic creators. Or perhaps, a la The Matrix<\/em>, you\u2019ll go for scary machines sucking energy out of our bodies as they distract us with a simulated reality.<\/p>\n

For Yuval Noah Harari<\/a>, who has spent a lot of time worrying about AI over the past decade, the threat is less fantastical and more insidious. \u201cIn order to manipulate humans, there is no need to physically hook brains to computers,\u201d he writes in his engrossing new book Nexus<\/em>. \u201cFor thousands of years prophets, poets and politicians have used language to manipulate and reshape society. Now computers are learning how to do it. And they won\u2019t need to send killer robots to shoot us. They could manipulate human beings to pull the trigger.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nThe author of the bestselling Sapiens offers a penetrating critique of the insidious dangers of machine learning and its capacity to manipulate the truth
\nWhat jumps to mind when you think about the impending AI apocalypse? If you\u2019re partial to sci-fi movie cliches, you may envisage killer robots (with or without thick Austrian accents) rising up to terminate their hubristic creators. Or perhaps, a la The Matrix, you\u2019ll go for scary machines sucking energy out of our bodies as they distract us with a simulated reality.
\nFor Yuval Noah Harari, who has spent a lot of time worrying about AI over the past decade, the threat is less fantastical and more insidious. \u201cIn order to manipulate humans, there is no need to physically hook brains to computers,\u201d he writes in his engrossing new book Nexus. \u201cFor thousands of years prophets, poets and politicians have used language to manipulate and reshape society. Now computers are learning how to do it. And they won\u2019t need to send killer robots to shoot us. They could manipulate human beings to pull the trigger.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The author of the bestselling Sapiens offers a penetrating critique of the insidious dangers of machine learning and its capacity to manipulate the truth What jumps to mind when you think about the impending AI apocalypse? If you\u2019re partial to sci-fi movie cliches, you may envisage killer robots (with or without thick Austrian accents) rising …<\/p>\n

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari review \u2013 rage against the machine<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15833"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}