19 must-read artificial intelligence books like Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World by Cade Metz

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Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

By: Cade Metz

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives…

"It was a combination of genetics, stupidity, and bad luck, like everything else that goes wrong in life"

-Cade Metz, Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

If you liked the artificial intelligence plot in Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World by Cade Metz , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

By: Nick Bostrom

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig… read more

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  • technology
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • computer science
  • science
Cover of A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni

2. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

By: Rob Goodman , Jimmy Soni

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon--the … read more

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  • science
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • computer science
  • technology
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3. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

By: None

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Audio CD

How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of be… read more

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  • science
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • computer science
  • business
  • technology

4. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

By: Jon Gertner

4.14

Format: 152 pages,

From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs--officially, the research… read more

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5. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
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6. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

By: Max Solomon Bennett

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more

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  • history
  • technology
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • science
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7. Elon Musk

By: Walter Isaacson

4.40

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"

-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

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8. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business
  • audiobook
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9. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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10. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

By: Brian Christian

4.37

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement … read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • computer science
  • business
  • technology
"Curiosity bred competence."

-Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

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11. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

By: Stuart Russell

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to c… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • computer science
  • business
  • technology
"To get just an inkling of the fire we're playing with, consider how content-selection algorithms function on social media. They aren't particularly intelligent, but they are in a position to affect t…"

-Stuart Russell, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

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12. The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

By: Sebastian Mallaby

4.43

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year  Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Ec… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
"The first notable spinout was Kathy Xu, another woman who managed to flourish in China's venture industry. Rather than studying in the United States, Xu had experienced U.S. instruction at Nanjing Un…"

-Sebastian Mallaby, The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

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13. A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

By: Daniel Susskind

3.84

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of ho… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
"the future , they say ; holds both obsolescence and ever-greater relevance ; technology is a threat and an opportunity ; a rival and a partner , a foe and a friend"

-Daniel Susskind, A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

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14. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By: Michael Lewis

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman

15. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

By: Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing) by Salman Khan

16. Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

By: Salman Khan

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • computer science
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Age of AI and Our Human Future by Henry Kissinger

17. The Age of AI and Our Human Future

By: Henry Kissinger

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intell… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence by Ajay Agrawal

18. Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

By: Ajay Agrawal

3.88

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

"What does AI mean for your business? Read this book to find out." -- Hal Varian, Chief Economist, … read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • computer science
  • business
  • technology
"During the shopping process, Amazon’s AI offers suggestions of items that it predicts you will want to buy. The AI does a reasonable job. However, it is far from perfect. In our case, the AI accurate…"

-Ajay Agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

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19. Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter

By: Zoë Schiffer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“the bird is freed” – Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2022 When Elon Musk took over Twitter, … read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley by Jimmy Soni

20. The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

By: Jimmy Soni

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER National Bestseller * New York Times Editors’ Choice * … read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • biography
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya

21. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

By: Ananyo Bhattacharya

4.11

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolution… read more

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  • audiobook
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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • computer science
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"The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeti…"

-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

"The best estimates of Trinity’s power put the figure somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 tons. Oppenheimer reached for poetry, recalling a verse from ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, which…"

-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

"At one of his ‘high-proof, high-I.Q. parties’ one analyst produced a fat cylindrical ‘coin’ that was something of a RAND obsession at the time. Milled by the RAND machine shop at the behest of Willia…"

-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

"With his school years behind him, von Neumann took the train to Berlin with his father in September 1921 to begin the arduous programme of study that had been agreed. A passenger sharing their carria…"

-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

Cover of Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World by Cade Metz

22. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

By: Cade Metz

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • biography
  • entrepreneurship
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • computer science
  • business
  • technology
"It was a combination of genetics, stupidity, and bad luck, like everything else that goes wrong in life"

-Cade Metz, Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

Cover of AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee

23. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

By: Kai-Fu Lee

4.10

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has sud… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
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  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
"When I launched my AI career in 1983, I did so by waxing philosophic in my application to the Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon. I described AI as “the quantification of the human thinking process, th…"

-Kai-Fu Lee, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

Cover of The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li

24. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

By: Fei-Fei Li

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • biography
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • computer science
  • technology
Cover of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick

25. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
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  • business
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Cover of AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee

26. AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

By: Kai-Fu Lee

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

In a groundbreaking blend of science and imagination, the former president of Google China and a le… read more

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"Many people think smartphones and apps already know too much about us, but XR will take things to a whole new level."

-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

"Imagine, a $1,000 political assassin! And this is not a far-fetched danger for the future, but a clear and present danger."

-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

"autonomous weapons are already a clear and present danger, and will become more intelligent, nimble, lethal, and accessible at an unprecedented speed."

-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

"More data leads to better AI (artificial intelligence), more automation leads to greater efficiency, more usage leads to reduced cost, and more free time leads to greater productivity. All of these w…"

-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

Cover of Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie  Mitchell

27. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

By: Melanie Mitchell

4.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping examination of the current state of artificial intelligence and how it is remaking our w… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • computer science
  • business
  • technology
"Hofstadter... fears that AI might show us that the human qualities we most value are disappointingly simple to mechanize."

-Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

Cover of The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil

28. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

By: Ray Kurzweil

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • computer science
  • technology
Cover of A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going by Michael Wooldridge

29. A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going

By: Michael Wooldridge

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Oxford's leading AI researcher comes a fun and accessible tour through the history and future … read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • computer science
  • business
  • technology
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30. Other Rivers: A Chinese Education

By: Peter Hessler

4.56

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

27 best-selling technology books like Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World by Cade Metz

Transform Your Habits

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Nick Bostrom

3.50

Transform Your Habits

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

Rob Goodman , Jimmy Soni

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

None

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

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16 Best audiobook books like Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing) by Salman Khan

Transform Your Habits

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

3.73

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