# The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

- **Author:** Pedro Domingos
- **Read:** January 2020
- **Topic:** Technology
- **Published:** 2015
- **Pages:** 333
- **Picked by:** Loren and Jamie
- **ISBN-13:** 9780465065707
- **Open Library:** https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19663805W
- **Cover:** https://rwbookclub.com/assets/images/covers/the-master-algorithm-852.jpg
- **Canonical page:** https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-master-algorithm/

## Synopsis

In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask. In The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos lifts the veil to give us a peek inside the learning machines that power Google, Amazon, and your smartphone. He assembles a blueprint for the future universal learner--the Master Algorithm--and discusses what it will mean for business, science, and society. If data-ism is today's philosophy, this book is its bible.

## Meeting notes

December meeting was cancelled at last minute and two books consolidated into January meeting.