AI takes centre stage at the World Audio Visual Entertainment Summit in Mumbai, IndiaIndranil Aditya/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images The AI Con Emily Bender and Alex Hanna; Harper) An alternative history of Silicon Valley can be told not through its successes – products like the iPhone, Facebook or Google – but through its scams, like Theranos’s faulty blood tests or FTX’s dodgy crypto accounts. From a bird’s eye view, these companies’ stories share a formula: invent a world-changing idea, generate hype, convince investors of potential, and then expand as far and fast as possible.… #this #new #book #onesided #attempt