The precipice by Toby Ord 2020
Artificial general intelligence is our greatest existential risk. Ord’s book provides a taxonomy...
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The promise of artificial intelligence by Brian Cantwell Smith 2019
Today’s AI is still only scratching the surface of general intelligence. Superficially, Cantwell...
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Artificial intelligence by Yorick Wilks 2019
AI for beginners There tends to be two types of book on AI. One type tells you how it works, which...
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Architects of intelligence by Martin Ford 2018
Deep learning versus the rest: the future of AGI. This is an excellent set of interviews with 23...
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The Next Decade in AI by Gary Marcus 17 February 2020
A strong argument for supplementing machine learning with symbolic manipulation. Machine learning...
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The book of why by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie 2019
A brilliant explanation of how and why AI needs to incorporate causation. What is the difference...
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Expression of doubt by Douglas Heaven in Nature 27 February 2020
Academia and commercial AI go their separate ways on emotions. Several AI companies are pressing...
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Zed by Joanna Kavenna 2019
A brave new world for the 21st century. If Huxley and Orwell identified the problem, Kavenna shows...
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A new trinity in The Economist 4 January 2020
AI training is more human than artificial. In a technology report devoted to China, The Economist...
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AI-designed drug to start human trials for first time in Financial Times 31 January 2020
AI achieves another breakthrough. For some time now, AI has helped identify and crank through...
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Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson 2019
Where does AI end and life begin, or is it where does life end and AI begin? Winterson plays...
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Machine learning poses significant risks that need to be managed by Mark Yallop in FT 24 December 2019
Algorithms in capital markets trading are changing shape. Watch out. In this clear insight on...
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Possible minds edited by John Brockman 2019
Thought-provoking collection of essays on artificial intelligence Brockman’s book consists of 25...
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Traffic, jammed in The Economist 12 October 2019
The penny is dropping on driverless cars. This is a nicely succinct piece about the slow progress...
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Supercomputer simulates key brain centre in real time by Edd Gent in NewScientist 12 October 2019
Sailing into new computing waters. Neuromorphic computing is seen as potentially fertile territory...
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Who needs emotions edited by J-M Fellous and MA Arbib 2005
An unemotional analysis of robot emotions. The book consists of a series of papers by various...
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AI beats professionals at six-player poker by Douglas Heaven in Nature 18 July 2019
Forget the ‘tell’: poker is just another game for AI. A collaborative effort between Facebook and...
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Emotions- from brain to robot by MA Arbib and J-M Fellous in Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12 December 2004
Emotions are critical for action selection in both humans and robots. It is tempting to think that...
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Machines like me by Ian McEwan, 2019
Stories involving conscious robots can be quite unsettling. Whilst the premises upon which the...
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The billion-dollar bet to reach human-level AI by Richard Waters in FT 5 August 2019
OpenAI bets big computing is the answer to artificial general intelligence. OpenAI’s goal is to...
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