Outnumbered: From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-Bubbles - The Algorithms That Control Our Lives
暫譯: 被數量壓倒：從 Facebook 和 Google 到假新聞與過濾泡沫 - 控制我們生活的演算法
Sumpter, David
- 出版商: Bloomsbury SIGMA
- 出版日期: 2018-06-19
- 售價: $1,180
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,121
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 272
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 147294741X
- ISBN-13: 9781472947413
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相關分類:
Algorithms-data-structures
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商品描述
Outnumbered is a journey to the dark side of mathematics, from how it dictates our social media activities to our travel routes. Algorithms are running our society, and as Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal has revealed, we don't even realize how our data has been used against us. David Sumpter investigates whether mathematics is crossing dangerous lines when it comes to what we can make decisions about.
Our increasing reliance on technology and the internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through into our lives. Using the data they are constantly collecting about where we travel, where we shop, what we buy, and what interests us, they can begin to predict our daily habits, and increasingly we are relinquishing our decision-making to algorithms. Are we giving this up too easily?
Without understanding what mathematics can and can't do it is impossible to get a handle on how it is changing our lives.
In this book, David Sumpter takes an algorithm-strewn journey to the dark side of mathematics. He investigates the equations that analyze us, influence us and will (maybe) become like us, answering questions like:
Who are Cambridge Analytica, and what are they doing with our data?
How does Facebook build a 100-dimensional picture of your personality?
Are Google algorithms racist and sexist?
Why do election predictions fail so drastically?
Are algorithms that are designed to find criminals making terrible mistakes?
What does the future hold as we relinquish our decision-making to machines?
Featuring interviews with those working at the cutting edge of algorithm, Outnumbered explains how mathematics and statistics work in the real world, and what we should and shouldn't worry about.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
《人數劣勢》是一段探索數學黑暗面之旅，從它如何影響我們的社交媒體活動到我們的旅行路線。演算法正在運行我們的社會，而正如 Facebook 的劍橋分析醜聞所揭示的，我們甚至沒有意識到我們的數據是如何被用來對付我們的。大衛·桑普特（David Sumpter）調查數學在我們能做出決策的範疇中是否越過了危險的界限。
我們對科技和互聯網日益增長的依賴，為數學家和數據研究者打開了一扇窺視我們生活的窗口。利用他們不斷收集的數據，了解我們的旅行地點、購物地點、購買的商品以及我們的興趣，他們可以開始預測我們的日常習慣，而我們越來越多地將決策權交給演算法。我們是否太輕易地放棄了這一點？
在不了解數學能做什麼和不能做什麼的情況下，我們無法掌握它如何改變我們的生活。
在這本書中，大衛·桑普特帶著充滿演算法的旅程探索數學的黑暗面。他調查那些分析我們、影響我們並可能（也許）變得像我們的方程式，回答以下問題：
劍橋分析是誰，他們在用我們的數據做什麼？
Facebook 如何建立你個性的 100 維圖像？
谷歌的演算法是否存在種族歧視和性別歧視？
為什麼選舉預測會如此失敗？
旨在尋找罪犯的演算法是否犯下可怕的錯誤？
隨著我們將決策權交給機器，未來會如何發展？
《人數劣勢》包含了與在演算法前沿工作的人的訪談，解釋了數學和統計在現實世界中的運作，以及我們應該擔心和不應該擔心的事情。
作者簡介
David Sumpter is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Originally from London, but growing up in Scotland, he completed his doctorate in Mathematics at Manchester, and held a Royal Society Fellowship at Oxford before heading to Sweden. His scientific research covers everything from the inner workings of fish schools and ant colonies, the analysis the passing networks of football teams, segregation in society to machine learning and artificial intelligence.
David has written for The Economist, The Telegraph, Current Biology, Mathematics Today and FourFourTwo magazine, amongst others. He has been awarded the IMA's Catherine Richards prize for communicating mathematics to a wider audience. David's first book was Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
大衛·桑普特（David Sumpter）是瑞典烏普薩拉大學的應用數學教授。他來自倫敦，但在蘇格蘭長大，並在曼徹斯特完成了數學博士學位，之後在牛津獲得皇家學會獎學金，然後前往瑞典。他的科學研究涵蓋了從魚群和蟻群的內部運作、足球隊的傳球網絡分析、社會中的隔離現象到機器學習和人工智慧等各個領域。
大衛曾為《經濟學人》（The Economist）、《電訊報》（The Telegraph）、《當前生物學》（Current Biology）、《今日數學》（Mathematics Today）以及《FourFourTwo》雜誌等撰寫文章。他因為向更廣泛的受眾傳達數學而獲得了IMA的凱瑟琳·理查茲獎（Catherine Richards prize）。大衛的第一本書是《足球數學：美麗遊戲中的數學冒險》（Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game）。
