MIT Technology Review October 23, 2024
Three books explore the promise and peril of artificial intelligence.
A metronome ticks. A record spins. And as a feel-good pop track plays, a giant compactor slowly crushes a Jenga tower of material creations. Paint cans burst. Chess pieces topple. Camera lenses shatter. An alarm clock shrills and then goes silent. A guitar neck snaps. Even a toy emoji is not spared, its eyes popping from their plastic sockets before the mechanical jaws close with a deafening thud. But wait! The jaunty tune starts up again, and the jaws open to reveal … an iPad.
Watching Apple’s now-infamous “Crush!” ad, it’s hard not to feel uneasy about the ways in which digitization is remaking human life. Sure, we’re happy for...
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