Rutherford and Fry’s Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged) seeks to challenge some of the assumptions we make about the world and show us how to “bypass our monkey brains”, which have evolved to “tell us all sorts of things that feel intuitively right but just aren’t true”. The follow-up, out this week, she has written with geneticist Adam Rutherford, her co-host on The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry, a BBC Radio 4 series in which they use science to solve mysteries submitted by listeners. Fry, a professor in the mathematics of cities at University College London, is a seasoned public speaker and broadcaster who won the prestigious Zeeman Medal in 2018 in recognition of her work to improve the public’s understanding of maths.Ī year later she published Hello World: how to be human in the age of the machine, which gained widespread acclaim and a place on numerous award shortlists. If she can’t understand that claim, there won’t be many people who can. The refrigerator in question was in perfect working order, but “it had a sticker on it that said: ‘This fridge is AI ready.’ I just don’t know what on Earth that means.” Hannah Fry is getting exercised about a domestic appliance.
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