Tag

Artificial intelligence

19 reviews

Books

Accelerando

Charles Stross

Enjoyed this take on future tech and its implications on economic systems.
AI Engineering

Chip Huyen

Good overview across the AI stack
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares

A moderately accessible introduction about the very real risks of superintelligent AI.
Read more: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Exegesis

Astro Teller

Quite ahead of its time for 1997, tells the story of the emergence of an AI through email exchanges.
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

Roger Williams

This was a long series of posts on kuro5hin, eventually made into a book
Superintelligence

Nick Bostrom
Rise of the Robots

Martin R. Ford
Diaspora

Greg Egan
Daemon

Daniel Suarez

Agentic AI before it was cool.
1. Daemon
2. Freedom
Nexus

Ramez Naam
1. Nexus
2. Crux
3. Apex
Neuromancer

William Gibson

Like a lot of highly-influential books, ends up feeling dated and overhyped because its innovative ideas have been copied and improved upon by others.
Deep Utopia

Nick Bostrom

There were a few interesting parts here, but ultimately this book less about AI and more about philosophy/the meaning of life. Not my cup of tea, I preferred Superintelligence.
Imperial Radch

Ann Leckie
1. Ancillary Justice
2. Ancillary Sword

Movies & TV

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning

Some impressive stunts, but the dialog is just so horrendous and it’s entirely too long
1. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2. Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning