Algorithms to Live By

Brian Christian is the author of The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive, a Wall Street Journal best-seller and a New Yorker best-of-the-year pick. He was nominated for the UK's Best Book of Ideas award alongside Steven Pinker and Daniel Kahneman.

Tom Griffiths is a UC Berkeley professor of psychology and cognitive science who runs the Computational Cognitive Science Lab. He has won numerous prizes for his scientific work, including those from the American Psychological Association and the Sloan Foundation.

In a day or a lifetime, what should we do or leave undone? How much messiness should we put up with? What is the most satisfying blend of new and familiar? These may appear to be uniquely human dilemmas, but they are not. Because computers, like humans, have limited space and time, computer scientists have been wrestling with comparable issues for decades. And the solutions they've discovered have a lot to teach us.

Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths demonstrate how algorithms built for computers can also be used to answer very human concerns in a stunningly transdisciplinary study. They explain how to have greater intuition and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming options, and how to interact with others more effectively. Algorithms to Live By translates the wisdom of computer science into techniques for human existence, from finding a spouse to finding a parking place, from managing one's email to peeking into the future.

Author: Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

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