A book that says AI is just cheap prediction. Pip and the Professor read it.
The book's claim is that AI makes prediction cheap, as computers once made arithmetic cheap, and that cheap prediction finds new uses, like shipping goods before you order them.
On the book: Prediction Machines by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb
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Harvard Business Review Press · Jan 1, 2018
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