Artificial intelligence
by Jerry Kaplan · first published 2016
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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
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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...
on “Apple hires CMU professor as director of AI research to smarten up Siri” ↗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…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?” ↗