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Cargando... Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technologypor Rana El Kaliouby
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This was a wonderful book -- Rana writes, with Carol Colman's help, as if she is talking with you, telling you things you would love to have asked her in the first place! I cannot explain, easily, what her company does but it's impressive because it's her idea that was developed with the heart and soul of this one woman from a culture that she is eager to explain, with all of the problems she had to overcome in order to reach the point where she is. In terms of what her business is, I would be fascinated to read an epilogue about the effect that the pandemic, and masks in particular, have had on the entire idea of reading faces (a VERY simplistic description of her company!!!). Her explanations of how important faces are in human interactions really made me look at the pandemic with some extra fear I hadn't quite realized. We often can't recognize the person behind the mask---although the eyes are apparently particularly expressive in the Muslim culture where woman are wearing hijabs that sometimes cover everything BUT their eyes. We are all missing human contact to an enormous degree already but I wish Rana could explain how her company is working through this time. Really a fascinating book, well worth reading. She explains things so well, easily understood by a non-scientist---ME, for example! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"In a captivating memoir, an Egyptian American visionary and scientist provides an intimate view of her personal transformation as she follows her calling-to humanize our technology and how we connect with one another. Rana el Kaliouby is a rarity in both the tech world and her native Middle East: a Muslim woman in charge in a field that is still overwhelmingly white and male. Growing up in Egypt and Kuwait, el Kaliouby was raised by a strict father who valued tradition-yet also had high expectations for his daughters-and a mother who was one of the first female computer programmers in the Middle East. Even before el Kaliouby broke ground as a scientist, she broke the rules of what it meant to be an obedient daughter and, later, an obedient wife to pursue her own daring dream. After earning her PhD at Cambridge, el Kaliouby, now the divorced mother of two, moved to America to pursue her mission to humanize technology before it dehumanizes us. The majority of our communication is conveyed through nonverbal cues: facial expressions, tone of voice, body language. But that communication is lost when we interact with others through our smartphones and devices. The result is an emotion-blind digital universe that impairs the very intelligence and capabilities-including empathy-that distinguish human beings from our machines. To combat our fundamental loss of emotional intelligence online, she cofounded Affectiva, the pioneer in the new field of Emotion AI, allowing our technology to understand humans the way we understand one another. Girl Decoded chronicles el Kaliouby's journey from being a "nice Egyptian girl" to becoming a woman, carving her own path as she revolutionizes technology. But decoding herself-learning to express and act on her own emotions-would prove to be the biggest challenge of all"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The second half of the book is basically "as a CEO", "I am de CEO", CEO this, CEO that ... I understand that she is proud of her achievements, but it doesn't make for interesting reading. It doesn't help that explanations about very basic ideas (i.e. upholding ethics in AI) go on for pages and pages without gaining any depth.
Anyway, I read the whole thing, so it might not be 100% terrible. ( )