T-Minus AI: Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power by Michael Kanaan

" AI is not in the future, it is now. Many AI projects are up and running and much more on the horizon. What Kanaan provides very well in this excellent reading volume is his account of how it developed and where it is, where it is heading, and potential scenarios. I very much appreciated the history of AI, but cannot subscribe to his evolutionary account as there is no real accepted evidence of this, just theories. However, if one picks it up around 4,000 years ago with language development, you'll get a useful background. Loved the Hindu legend of the king and chessboard and the rise challenge. It provides the mathematical scale of what AI needs and has achieved through technological advances....." " I had expected to learn about AI itself. What it is, how it works, it's applications, likely future developments and so on. I was expecting more technical and scientific content than was actually in the book. I wanted to learn what machine learning actually is, what is the latest research and what are the limits of AI. There was some of this in the book but not much. Instead the book is much more about the geopolitical implications of AI; especially the second half of the book. The investment that China is making in AI, how it's using it and why we should be worried is an eye-opener and the best chapter in the book. The author provides an accessible discussion on the ethics of AI - how it can be used well and how it can be used to the detriment of democratic values......"

기대했던 AI의 이야기하고는 다른 이야기인 거 같다. AI를 둘러싼 주요 선진국들의 정치적 헤게모니이야기, 그리고  AI 하고 직접 또는 간접적으로 연관된 역사적 이야기가 많은 페이지를 차지하고 있다. 재밌고 지적인 이야기도 많지만 내가 원했던 내용과 달라서 조금 아쉬운 부분이 있는 작품이다. 다만 문장의 구성이나 표현이 무난하고 본문에서 다루어지고 있는 내용들을 알아두면 다른 사람들과의 대화(?)에 도움이 되는 지적인 내용들이라 읽을 만한 거 같다.