AI Books from Amazon
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ChatGPT for Dummies ChatGPT For Dummies demystifies the artificial intelligence tool that can answer questions, write essays, and generate just about any kind of text it's asked for. This powerful example of generative AI is widely predicted to upend education and business. In this book, you'll learn how ChatGPT works and how you can operate it in a way that yields satisfactory results. |
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is a rigorous and thorough look at the dangers of AI from Nick Bostrom. Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life.
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit by Henry A. Kissinger et al. The last book of elder statesman Henry Kissinger, written with technologists Craig Mundie and Eric Schmidt, Genesis charts a course between blind faith and unjustified fear as it outlines an effective strategy for navigating the age of AI.
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman. An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance.
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, the author asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. |
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick. Through his writing, speaking, and teaching, Mollick has become one of the most prominent and provocative explainers of AI, focusing on the practical aspects of how these new tools for thought can transform our world.
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee. How will artificial intelligence change our world within 20 years?
Artificial Intelligence For Dummies by John Paul Mueller. Starting with a basic definition of AI and explanations of data use, algorithms, special hardware, and more, this reference simplifies this complex topic for anyone who wants to understand what operates the devices we can't live without.
A good overview of the whole topic and fun to read is James Barrat Our Final Invention
Controversial and packed with facts and charts and mind-blowing future projections Ray Kurzweil The Singularity is Near
J. Nils Nilsson The Quest for Artificial Intelligence: A History of Ideas and Achievements
Steven Pinker How the Mind Works
Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
The philosopher Hubert L. Dreyfus' seminal book What Computers Can't Do and What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason written many years later.
Stuart Armstrong Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence