Popular Reviews of Flesh and Code

Thoughtprovoking and insightful. I´m finding it very interesting to try to understand other people and why the do what they do - a realisation the creators of AI also have to face, and have a huge responsibility to treat with the utmost respect

Flesh & Code is a well made and interesting series, though it does fizzle out in the final "Daniel Todd" episode. It confirms that what exists is increasingly clever software, but only artificial stupidity. The AI term is mostly hype, because it will not produce the scale of productivity gains being claimed, meaning the current stock market bubble is bound to burst. Then we'll be left with self-driving cars you daren't take your hands off, computer-generated text riddled with falsehoods, and spell-checkers that undo correct words as often as they fix bad ones. I'm old enough to remember three previous tech busts: the one where the AI label was applied to Office software suites running on PCs, the one where flight simulators were rebranded as Virtual Reality and we were all meant to be wearing VR goggles 30 years ago, and the Dot Com Crash of 2000, which killed off the promised internet and left us with mostly shopping, games and telly. Anyone got nanobots in their blood yet? I thought not. We'll never learn!