I don’t know too much about the machine learning field but from the book I get that the author is a leading pioneer. However, the book can sound too self-congratulatory from time to time and that is distracting. The book is informative in the sense that it introduced the history of how machine learning came about in some of the chapters, but beyond that I can’t say I gather much insight of the field from the book. I am often confused by the timeline of things as the author appears to be working with so many different institutes at different points in the book (again, on the line of self-congratularoy) and if the book is intended as some memoir, I don’t think it is doing a good job.
The book reads like a list of things people achieved in the field over time, but there is little information on how people actually think to come to those solutions. I expected that by listening to the book I can have a big-picture understanding of the field but I can’t say I did.
The narration of the book feels so mechanical that I start to wonder if it is actually read by one of the artificial neural networks the author mentioned.