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The Machine is Learning | Tanuj Solanki

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Saransh works at a life insurance company, as part of the Special Projects Group (SPG). Their current project is top-secret: the development of an Artificial Intelligence system that will leave 552 branch-level employees redundant overnight. Because of site-specific customizations, however, the system needs to collect information from the company’s various branches. Thus, begins a cycle in which Saransh travels across the country, interviewing the very people that his machine will replace soon. Meanwhile, his conscientious ex-journalist girlfriend Jyoti repeatedly questions Saransh’s complicity in the impending destruction of hundreds of lives. The Machine is Learning is a novel about twenty-first-century workplaces, love and the impact of technology in all of our lives. It interrogates a world order that accommodates guilt but offers no truly ethical course correction.

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The Machine is Learning | Tanuj Solanki

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Saransh, head of a special group project at an insurance company, is going around branch offices interviewing salespeople in hopes of figuring out anomalies that will make automation possible as well as the destruction of 500 jobs. Outside the office we see him meet his new girlfriend, ex journalist, Jyoti on Tinder. Through their discourse he starts to have a conscience about what he‘s doing. This was a pretty good read. Like global warming,š‘‡š¸¼

Reggie advanced technology will start to come at us whether we like it or not. Hopefully, it won‘t always come at us through the lens of capitalism. (edited) 3y

Suet624 Amen to that. 3y

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The Machine is Learning | Tanuj Solanki

Rabbit hole time. So I had to stop reading to google Lee Sedol, pictured upper left. He‘s retired now but at the time was the highest ranked #1 Go player in the world. The game board is lower right, I had never heard about the game. He went up against the A.I., AlphaGo, in 2016 and lost the match 4-1. Turns out there is a documentary about it. It‘s wonderful and surprisingly emotional what A.I. can tell us about being human. Now back to the book.

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