Emma Goto
The book is an interesting concept to demonstrate AI predictions via short stories. However it was structured where before each story you would have an explanation of the AI concept that would follow in the short story, and it just felt like it was over-explaining things both in this intro and in the stories themselves. I would have preferred more straight fiction or more non-fiction writing (and less fiction) rather than this in between. Even so, it felt a bit hard to reconcile what they were predicting in the book as something that could actually happen by 2041, so I didn't walk away feeling convinced.
Originally posted at www.emgoto.com.
The book is an interesting concept to demonstrate AI predictions via short stories. However it was structured where before each story you would have an explanation of the AI concept that would follow in the short story, and it just felt like it was over-explaining things both in this intro and in the stories themselves. I would have preferred more straight fiction or more non-fiction writing (and less fiction) rather than this in between. Even so, it felt a bit hard to reconcile what they were predicting in the book as something that could actually happen by 2041, so I didn't walk away feeling convinced.
Originally posted at www.emgoto.com.