By Toby Walsh The celebrated author, Toby Walsh, asserts that we cannot build machines that match even the intelligence of a two year old child. Yet we can program computers to perform narrow, focused tasks that human beings would want to avoid. Oddly enough, the author adds, AI is already a part of our lives but is somewhat hidden from sight. Ultimately, AI will permeate all aspects of our daily lives just like electricity. AI, like human intelligence which is a collection o

By Karen Hao In this book award-winning book journalist Karen Hao who has spent a lifetime researching the growth and evolution of artificial intelligence is now faced with the unexpected question: How is it possible that this technology that has transformed every nook and corner of our daily lives and promised abundance and material prosperity has paradoxically impoverished those very people it was supposed to benefit? What went wrong? Was it that this technology was inheren

By Eric Schmidt, Henry A. Kissinger, Craig Mundie This book is primarily a work on AI and the new technology it has spawned written during the final years of Kissinger’s life. It really is a continuation of his earlier research and thought that metamorphosed into a new book titled Nuclear Weapons And Foreign Policy. Contrary to what was believed then, Kissinger was not a warmonger but however even his youthful idealism did not make him a pacifist. He truly believed that the

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