AI Recommendations

Updated August 31, 2023
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The promise of artificial intelligence : reckoning and judgment
Smith, Brian Cantwell
Paper Book
An argument that-despite dramatic advances in the field-artificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely intelligent. In this provocative book, Brian Cantwell Smith argues that artificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely...
Power and prediction : the disruptive economics of artificial intelligence
Agrawal, Ajay
Paper Book
Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines can help you prepare. Artificial intelligence (AI) has impacted many industries around the world--banking and finance, pharmaceuticals, automotive, medical...
Great Philosophical Objections to Artificial Intelligence: The History and Legacy of the AI Wars
Zebrowski, Robin
Paper Book
Winner of the 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles This book surveys and examines the most famous philosophical arguments against building a machine with human-level intelligence. From claims and counter-claims about the ability to implement consciousness, rationality, and...
What Is Artificial Intelligence?: a Conversation Between an AI Engineer and a Humanities Researcher
Gupta, Suman
Paper Book
'A light-hearted, but engaging conversation about one of the key technologies of our age.I recommend this book to anyone interested in the broader issues around Artificial Intelligence.'Richard HartleyAustralian National University, Australia This book engages with the title question: what is...
A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are
Coleman, Flynn
Paper Book
A groundbreaking narrative on the urgency of ethically designed AI and a guidebook to reimagining life in the era of intelligent technology. The Age of Intelligent Machines is upon us, and we are at a reflection point. The proliferation of fast-moving technologies, including...
Deep medicine : how artificial intelligence can make healthcare human again
Topol, Eric J.
Paper Book
A Science Friday pick for book of the year, 2019 One of America's top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care Medicine has become inhuman, to disastrous effect. The...
Radically human : how new technology is transforming business and shaping our future
Daugherty, Paul R.
Paper Book
Technology advances are making tech more . . . human. This changes everything you thought you knew about innovation and strategy. In their groundbreaking book, Human + Machine, Accenture technology leaders Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson showed how leading organizations...
More than a glitch : confronting race, gender, and ability bias in tech
Broussard, Meredith
Paper Book
When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch-it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world. The word "glitch" implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren...
Social machines : the coming collision of artificial intelligence, social networking, and humanity
Hendler, James A.
Paper Book
Will your next doctor be a human being--or a machine? Will you have a choice? If you do, what should you know before making it? This book introduces the reader to the pitfalls and promises of artificial intelligence (AI) in its modern incarnation and the growing trend of...
T-minus AI : humanity's countdown to artificial intelligence and the new pursuit of global power
Kanaan, Michael
Paper Book
2020 Foreword Indie Award Honorable Mention in the "Science & Technology" Category Late in 2017, the global significance of the conversation about artificial intelligence (AI) changed forever. China put the world on alert when it released a plan to...
Machines we trust : perspectives on dependable AI
Pelillo, Marcello
Paper Book
Experts from disciplines that range from computer science to philosophy consider the challenges of building AI systems that humans can trust. Artificial intelligence-based algorithms now marshal an astonishing range of our daily activities, from driving a car ("turn left in 400...
Life 3.0 : being human in the age of artificial intelligence
Tegmark, Max
Paper Book
New York Times Best Seller How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology--and there's nobody better qualified or...
Artificial intelligence : rise of the lightspeed learners
Jennings, Charles
Paper Book
Self-learning machines called AIs are popping up all around us. They're real, and really important. They're affecting our lives--as workers, consumers, investors, citizens, patients and students. AIs bring huge promise, but also existential risk. The biggest risk isn't killer robots--it's the...
The man who knew too much : Alan Turing and the invention of the computer
Leavitt, David
Paper Book
Outlines the English mathematician's efforts in devising a programmable calculating machine, his work in cracking the Nazi Enigma code, and how the revelation of his homosexuality led to his tragic imprisonment and suicide.
How to stay smart in a smart world : why human intelligence still beats algorithms
Gigerenzer, Gerd
Paper Book
How to stay in charge in a world populated by algorithms that beat us in chess, find us romantic partners, and tell us to "turn right in 500 yards." Doomsday prophets of technology predict that robots will take over the world, leaving humans behind in the dust. Tech industry...
Gods and robots : myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology
Mayor, Adrienne
Paper Book
The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life--and even invented real automated machines The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by...
A.I. artificial intelligence from Stanley Kubrick to Steven Spielberg : the vision behind the film
Harlan, Jan.
Paper Book
Commissioned by Kubrick, conceived in response to A.I. story outlines and used in Spielberg's eventual production designs, over 150 stunning images by the film's conceptual artist, Chris Baker, display a breathtaking imagination and rare technical skill. Accompanying the drawings are...
The AI delusion
Smith, Gary
Paper Book
We live in an incredible period in history. The Computer Revolution may be even more life-changing than the Industrial Revolution. We can do things with computers that could never be done before, and computers can do things for us that could never be done before.But our love of computers should not...

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