A world without work by Daniel Susskind 2020
A shocking but entirely plausible vision of the future. Historically, new technology has replaced...
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Category: TSR BOOKS
The precipice by Toby Ord 2020
Artificial general intelligence is our greatest existential risk. Ord’s book provides a taxonomy...
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Future politics by Jamie Susskind 2018
Begins to explore the future of society in a pan-tech world. We are only just beginning to think...
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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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The self delusion by Tom Oliver 2020
An impassioned appeal for a more connected world. Oliver thinks we are way out of kilter because...
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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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How we learn by Stanislas Dehaene 2020
A must for machine learners and educationalists alike. In an age when the digital world is...
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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 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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Galileo’s error by Philip Goff 2019
An elegant articulation of the panpsychist position. In ancient Greek mythology, Scylla and...
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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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Animal languages by Eva Meijer 2016
Dr Doolittle lives again. This is a truly wide-ranging canter through the ways in which many types...
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The feeling of life itself by Christof Koch 2019
Integrated information theory of consciousness becomes panpsychism. Koch elegantly explains the...
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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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The deep history of ourselves by Joseph LeDoux 2019
A soup to nuts history of life, humanity and consciousness. LeDoux rightly roots his account of...
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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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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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Mama’s last hug by Frans de Waal, 2019
Human emotions are just an extension of animal emotions. Another cracking read from one of the...
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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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Free will by Sam Harris 2012
A crystal clear exposition of why free will is an illusion. This is a great book. It is short and...
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