Machines Who Think

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1. kavaivaleriDec 2023
   Classics

   - Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville

   - The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie

   - Designing Machine Learning Systems by Chip Huyen

   - The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingo

   Fresh look (books published in 2023)

   - The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li

   - The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar

   - Understanding Deep Learning by Simon J. D. Prince

   History of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

   - The Turing Guide by Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Mark Sprevak, Robin Wilson

   - The Quest for Artificial Intelligence: A History of Ideas and Achievements by Nils. J Nilsson

   - Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence by Pamela McCorduck

   AI and Future Studies

   - The Year in Tech, 2023: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights Series) by Harvard Business Review, Beena Ammanath, Andrew Ng, Michael Luca, and Bhaskar Ghosh

   - AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan

   - The Age of AI: And Our Human Future by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher

   AI ethics collection

   - AI: Its nature and future by Margaret Boden

   - AI Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh

   - The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism by Nick Couldry, Ulises Mejias

   - Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford

   Lastly, a fire-side list of books written completely using AI

   - Aum Golly: Poems on Humanity by an Artificial Intelligence by Jukka Aalho

   - Aum Golly 2: Illustrated Poems on Humanity by Artificial Intelligence by Jukka Aalho

   - 1 the Road by Ross Goodwin

   - The Inner Life of an AI: A Memoir by ChatGPT by Forrest Xiao

   - Bob The Robot: Exploring the Universe - A Cozy Bedtime Story Produced by Artificial Intelligence by Olle Green

   - (Fun!) 50 Ways AI Would End The World: Written by AI by Rob Knott

   Find links and descriptions at https://www.turingpost.com/p/books2023

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2. mjnMar 2020
   Two on AI history:

   Pamela McCorduck's Machines Who Think, either the 1979 original edition, or the 2004 2nd ed, which adds a 100-page afterword covering 1979–2004.

   Nils Nilsson's The Quest for Artificial Intelligence (2009).

   They have somewhat different styles and focuses. McCorduck is a writer (of popular science and sci-fi), while Nilsson was an AI researcher. Which isn't to say that McCorduck lacks knowledge about AI or that Nilsson can't write, but their backgrounds are noticeable in how the books are organized and written.

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3. sonabinuApr 2023
   Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry Into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence by Pamela McCorduck

   Go To by Steve Lohr

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4. mindcrimeNov 2021
   Sad news. RIP, Ms. McCorduck.

   The result was “Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry Into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence” (1979), a chronicle of past attempts to mechanize thought.

   I was first introduced to her name when I read a book she co-wrote along with Ed Feigenbaum - The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World[1]. It took me a while to later realize that she also wrote another book that was sitting on my shelf waiting to be read. That being Machines Who Think. I feel a bit sad now in acknowledging that the book is still sitting there waiting to be read. :-(

   [1]: https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Generation-Artificial-Intellige...

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5. jejones3141May 2013
   I'm reminded of the discussion of Joseph Weizenbaum in Pamela McCorduck's _Machines Who Think_.
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