Saviour / Predator
For the most part, the text of What Belongs to You is unburdened by authorial scruple: it moves to its own rhythm, posing politically awkward questions with little inclination to answer them. Garth Greenwell’s combination of slick, economical storytelling with emotional depth and subtle, allusive moral acuity makes this a powerful and compelling debut.
Houman Barekat reviews Garth Greenwell‘s What Belongs to You.
“If one day you invent the Master Algorithm… Open-source it”
Domingos asks: “who should you share data with? That’s perhaps the most important question of the twenty-first century.” And he’s not wrong, but even this phrasing is too optimistic: who should I share my data with, as if I have control of it already, and as if all the other actors on- and offline will respect my wishes.
Timothy Kennett reviews Pedro Domingos‘s The Master Algorithm.