Beautiful Particulars: How AI's Attention to the Smallest of Differences Is Reshaping Our Biggest Ideas

A fresh and eye-opening new explanation of AI-and how its focus on specifics is changing our ideas about ourselves and our world. From a Harvard researcher, philosopher, entrepreneur, former comedy writer, and bestselling author. Amid the clamor about AI, Beautiful Particulars poses a unique question: Not how does our use of AI change what we do, but how is the idea of AI already subtly yet fundamentally reshaping how we think about ourselves and our world?In clear, engaging, and even humorous prose, David Weinberger offers a new perspective on how machine learning works and how it may already be changing our basic and deepest ideas.Through lively examples, he shows that AI’s success-with all its risks and dangers-is taking us past our millennia of reliance on laws and principles by revealing what morality, free will, creativity, causality knowledge, and even reality itself look like now that we’re able to let the particulars speak their tiny truths. The author poses questions not usua