Andrej Karpathy's Review of Humans Need Not Apply

“This book provides a decent exploration of the future of automation. The first part of the book talks about AI/Machine Learning. This may have been a decent intro for someone completely new to the field, but for someone very much inside the field it was a little frustrating to read because of explanations that I think confused concepts in artificial intelligence, sometimes for example using the terms "machine learning" and "neural networks" interchangeably. I was also put off by some silly examples of what the future looks like, such as "Trying on an outfit? Instead of asking a sales assistant if you look nice, why not take a snapshot of yourself and seek crowdsourced opinions?". To me, these silly and quite speculative examples of small use cases give off too much of a singularity hype hype vibe. The later part of the book is where things finally take off and the book goes into some social-economical repercussions of automation and the likely more dramatic income inequality. This is