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Geographical Magazine HUMAN COMPATIBLE: AI and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell book review Written by Jacob Dykes by Stuart Russell • allen lane
If a human baby, in its first year of life, became the world Chess or Go champion, pandemonium would erupt. Theories would include demonic possession, an alien visitation, or a genetic engineering experiment let loose on the world. That baby did exist however: its name was AlphaGo, and the proud parents at Google trained it in 2016 through ‘reinforcement learning’ and 1.5 million iterations of ‘self-play’.
It’s this relationship between the human and machine mind that is at the centre of Stuart Russell’s Human Compatible. Russell knows that many of us don’t really understand the cognitive framework behind algorithms. To explain, he holds up a mirror to the human brain to demonstrate what algorithms are being programmed to do.