Apart from the integration of ChatGPT and other large language models into all sorts of applications, we've gotten used to Alexa, Google and Siri. We use Uber, play AI-run games and use neural net trading programs. You may also have been offered a credit card or a personal loan by AI!
The book's focus is the impact AI has on everyday life as it rapidly becomes part of normal existence. AI uses the data we all spew out, in unimaginable, almost magical, ways often to our benefit, but also often not. This is ultimately about people - though the book looks at them through the lens of data and the influence AI crunching that data has on their lives. The tech is dealt with in that context.
The advent of AI represents a new stage in "tech colonialism". Cheap labour in the Third World does the scutwork of labelling and annotating data, while large tech companies running the algorithms generate massive profits. One of Madhumita Murgia's points of reference, for example, is the Nigerian firm that does data-annotation for OpenAI and how its workers are treated.
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