pickThis book will stay with me for a long, long time. I really liked the first 75% of The Overstory, but then it lost me. This book is not like that. I can‘t really articulate all the things it made me think, and feel. And the vote at the end? Every point was valid, and true! So good. (But I do think Rafi kinda sucked). (20)
⭐️: 4.5/5
pickI didn‘t expect this to read like a memoir (a genre I typically don‘t read) but I appreciate how the author interweaves her own history and story with the illuminating information about facial recognition and image processing AI technologies.
I‘m glad I have read other books about the different technologies grouped together in the description of “AI.”
so-soWell, I just found out the thing I'm even less prepared for than an ending which seems to offer no hope or redemption, is one that makes you think it will be somewhat happy and then turns out to be a lie.
If you felt blank after Death of the Author, if you felt angry after Atonement, I don't think you're going to like this ending. 1/?
And this is why I always eventually find my way back to poetry, because there are those that make me “feel like a comet had just screamed across the sky“...“
“What began, centuries ago, as a healthy safeguard against projection had become an insidious contributor to human exceptionalism...“ 🤨🙎🏼♂️
pickThis is a tough one for me to review. It's a speculative science fiction with a lot to say about AI and AI evolution/development in a futuristic setting.
I really liked the contrast between the AI and the human characters and their growth as the story unfolds. At times, the pace of this book is rather slow, and a few times, I wanted to put it aside. However, the ending was worth sticking with this one, and why this is a pick for me.
