You Teach the Machines: AI On Your Terms

By Jeff Pennington

You Teach The Machines helps people of all backgrounds understand, live with, and use artificial intelligence. Told through real examples drawn from finance, cooking, technology, marketing, health, music, driving, and more, You Teach The Machines will help you maximize benefit and minimize harm from the AI-driven change already happening in your life. Find out what AI has to do with data privacy, the movie Trading Places, painter Bob Ross's HLHappy Little Clouds, the growth of the nuclear power industry, and your child or grandchild's classroom. Did you know that AI learns much like a baby? Understand the AI training cycle and how you participate in it-whether you realize it or not, you literally teach the machines. Did you know that AI can scale the expertise of specialized doctors? Discover how AI can enhance your health and provide rural residents with new access to medical care. Does this all feel new? Learn how we've been here before: From the invention of the written and printed word to ChatGPT, 'You Teach the Machines shows how writing and books have transformed the use of human knowledge, just as AI is doing now. Historical anecdotes help to demystify and put powerful new artificial intelligence technology in a historical context relevant to your life and work today. Completely new to AI? Helpful hands-on exercises walk you through what AI is good at-and where it is still a work-in-progress. Wary of AI? Gain actionable insight into the pitfalls and side effects of a new industrial revolution in the automation of human knowledge. Discover the risks and capabilities of military AI and its current impact on national security. Most importantly, understand the incredible benefits to be had from new technology, whether you like it or not. You Teach the Machines provides the knowledge you need to enhance your work and life with artificial intelligence - instead of competing with it.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FF1SDJSN
• ISBN13: 9798998815218
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Balacynwood
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"