Pedro Domingos - Author - The Master Algorithm - 2040: A Silicon Valley Satire

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Pedro Domingos is a renowned AI researcher, tech industry insider, and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. An expert in deep learning, neural networks, and AI ethics, Pedro’s research work encompasses some of the most cutting edge concepts like the black box of deep networks, and Markov Logic Network.
Pedro is the author of the best-selling book ‘The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World’ (Basic Books, 2015), which has been translated into over twelve languages and sold over 300,000 copies.
His latest book, ‘2040: A Silicon Valley Satire’, published in August 2024, is a novel that imagines the 2040 presidential election, where the Republican candidate is an AI named PresiBot, and the Democratic candidate is a fake Native American chief seeking to abolish the United States.
Pedro is the author/co-author of over 200 technical publications in machine learning, data science, and other areas. He’s a member of the editorial board of the Machine Learning journal, co-founder of the International Machine Learning Society, and past associate editor of JAIR.
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The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World is a book by Pedro Domingos released in 2015.
The book outlines five approaches of machine learning: inductive reasoning, Connectionism, evolutionary computation, Bayes' theorem, analogical modelling.
Pedro explains these tribes to the reader by referring to more understandable processes of logic, connections made in the brain, natural selection, probability and similarity judgments.
The book suggests that each different tribe has the potential to contribute to a unifying "master algorithm".
Towards the end of the book the author pictures a "master algorithm" in the near future, where machine learning algorithms asymptotically grow to a perfect understanding of how the world and people in it work. Although the algorithm doesn't yet exist, he briefly reviews his own invention of the Markov logic network.
In 2016 Bill Gates recommended the book, alongside Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence, as one of two books everyone should read to understand AI.
2040: A Silicon Valley Satire
In a chaotic 2040 presidential race, an AI candidate named PresiBot is pitted against a Native American chief determined to dismantle the United States. The mastermind behind PresiBot is Ethan, the struggling CEO of KumbAI, a tech startup that created the AI as a last-ditch publicity stunt. However, with PresiBot prone to malfunctioning and spouting hallucinations, the nation's fate hangs by a thread.
Set against a backdrop of a dystopian, tech-dominated San Francisco, 2040 is a fast-paced, satirical narrative that skewers the modern American landscape. From the overwhelming influence of Silicon Valley’s tech giants to the fear-mongering surrounding AI and the increasingly bizarre political movements, the novel paints a sharp, witty critique of the near future. With razor-sharp dialogue and a plot that mirrors today’s concerns, 2040 offers a darkly comedic reflection on where we might be headed.
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