Name: Artificial intelligence
ISBN: 9780190602390

Artificial intelligence

Over the coming decades, artificial Intelligence will profoundly impact the way we live, work, wage war, play, seek a mate, educate our young, and care for our elderly. It is likely to greatly increase our aggregate wealth, but it will also upend our labor markets, reshuffle our social order, and strain our private and public institutions. Eventually it may alter how we see our place in the universe, as machines pursue goals independent of their creators and outperform us in domains previously believed to be the sole dominion of humans. Whether we regard them as conscious or unwitting, revere them as a new form of life or dismiss them as mere clever appliances, is beside the point. They are likely to play an increasingly critical and intimate role in many aspects of our lives. The emergence of systems capable of independent reasoning and action raises serious questions about just whose interests they are permitted to serve, and what limits our society should place on their creation and use. Deep ethical questions that have bedeviled philosophers for ages will suddenly arrive on the steps of our courthouses. Can a machine be held accountable for its actions? Should intelligent systems enjoy independent rights and responsibilities, or are they simple property? Who should be held responsible when a self-driving car kills a pedestrian? Can your personal robot hold your place in line, or be compelled to testify against you?

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fspacefOct 2016

If you are really new to AI and want a broad understanding of the topic, I really recommend this book as a quick read: "Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know" by Jerry Kaplan

https://books.google.com/books?id=5fvmDAAAQBAJ&printsec=fron...

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mindcrimeDec 2016

Books I finished in 2016. There are others that are still "in progress", but I'll skip those for now.

- Towers of Midnight (Wheel of Time, #13) - Robert Jordan

- Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know - Jerry Kaplan

- The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time, #12) - Robert Jordan

- Ashley Bell - Dean Koontz

- Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time—and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything - George Musser

- What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas, and Why They Matter - Jeffrey O. Bennett

- Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold

- The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom - Stephen M. Stigler

- Deliver Us from Evil (A. Shaw, #2) - David Baldacci

- Total Control - David Baldacci

- Second Foundation (Foundation #3) - Isaac Asimov

- Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2) - Isaac Asimov

- End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3) - Stephen King

- Foundation (Foundation #1) - Isaac Asimov

- Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity - David Foster Wallace

- The Meaning of Science - Tim Lewens

- Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition - Guy Kawasaki

- The Last Mile (Amos Decker, #2) - David Baldacci

- Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble - Dan Lyons

- Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution: How Cloud Computing Is Transforming Business and Why You Can't Afford to Be Left Behind - Charles Babcock

- It's Not the Big That Eat the Small...It's the Fast That Eat the Slow: How to Use Speed as a Competitive Tool in Business - Jason Jennings

- Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die - Eric Siegel

- Mastering the Complex Sale: How to Compete and Win When the Stakes Are High! - Jeff Thull

- The Bazaar of Bad Dreams - Stephen King

What would I recommend out of this batch? Pretty much all of the fiction titles, and out of the non-fiction, I'd call out these as particularly recommended:

Mastering The Complex Sale, by Jeff Thull

Code, by Charles Petzold

and

It's Not the Big That Eat the Small...It's the Fast That Eat the Slow by Jason Jennings.

The one I'd call out as "not recommended" is

The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom by Stephen M. Stigler. I guess it has it's place, but it didn't turn out to be as enlightening as I'd hoped it would be.

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