23 Best technology books like Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it by Martin Ford

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Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it

By: Martin Ford

4.09

Format: 554 pages, Kindle Edition

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1. The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

By: Kevin Kelly

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological i… read more

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  • technology
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
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2. The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

By: Sean Carroll

4.18

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in… read more

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  • popular science
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  • science
"Life is short, and certainty never happens."

-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

"Intellectual fascination crosses many boundaries."

-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

"Life is not a substance, like water or rock; it’s a process, like fire or a wave crashing on the shore. It’s a process that begins, lasts for a while, and ultimately ends. Long or short, our moments …"

-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

"Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans—and misunderstood by people struggling in g…"

-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

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3. The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

By: Ray Kurzweil

3.93

Format: 652 pages, Paperback

“Startling in scope and bravado.” —Janet Maslin,  The New York Times “Artfully envisions a breatht… read more

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  • technology
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • computer science
  • science
"Play is just another version of work"

-Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

"Hoewel we de illusie hebben dat we beelden met hoge resolutie ontvangen van onze ogen, stuurt de oogzenuw slechts contouren en aanwijzingen over interessante punten in ons blikveld naar het brein. We…"

-Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

"We cannot rely on trial-and-error approaches to deal with existential risks… We need to vastly increase our investment in developing specific defensive technologies… We are at the critical stage toda…"

-Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

"Fredkin [...] praat over een interessant kenmerk van computerprogramma's, waaronder cellulaire automaten: er is geen kortere route mogelijk naar wat de uitkomst wordt. Dit is het wezenlijke verschil …"

-Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

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4. 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
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5. 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

6. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

By: Brian Christian , Tom Griffiths

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday l… read more

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7. Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

By: James P. Carse

3.51

Format: None pages,

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8. Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

By: Garry Kasparov , None

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Audio CD

Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in… read more

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9. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

By: Walter Isaacson

3.82

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

The computer and the internet are among the most important innovations of our era, but few people k… read more

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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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  • 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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  • 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. Measure What Matters

By: John Doerr

3.99

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

The revolutionary movement behind the explosive growth of Intel, Google, Amazon and Uber. With a f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"For anyone striving for high performance in the workplace, goals are very necessary things."

-John Doerr, Measure What Matters

"Acute focus, open sharing, exacting measurement, a license to shoot for the moon—these are the hallmarks of modern goal science."

-John Doerr, Measure What Matters

"If the heart doesn't find a perfect rhyme with the head, then your passion means nothing. The OKR framework cultivates the madness, the chemistry contained inside. It gives us an environment for risk…"

-John Doerr, Measure What Matters

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13. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • 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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14. What We Owe the Future

By: William MacAskill

3.84

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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15. The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

By: Erik J. Larson

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A cutting-edge AI researcher and tech entrepreneur debunks the fantasy that superintelligence is ju… read more

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  • computers
  • science
  • history
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • computer science
  • technology
"This cuts the myth at an awkward angle: it is because the [artificial intelligence] systems are idiots, but still find their way into business, consumer, and government application, that human-value …"

-Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

"Notice that the story [of technical progress accelerating indefinitely] is not testable; we just have to wait around and see. If the predicted year of true AI's coming is false, too, another one can …"

-Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

"In the early part of the twentieth century, the philosopher of language Paul Grice offered four maxims for successful conversation: The maxim of quantity. Try to be as informative as you possibly can…"

-Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

"Science, once a triumph of human intelligence, now seems headed into a morass of rhetoric about the power of big data and new computational methods, where the scientists' role is now as a technician,…"

-Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

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16. 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
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17. 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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  • science
  • history
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • computer science
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  • 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

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18. 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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"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 Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives by Peter H. Diamandis

19. The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

By: Peter H. Diamandis

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for te… read more

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  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li

20. 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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  • artificial intelligence
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  • computer science
  • science
Cover of Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford

21. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

By: Kate Crawford

3.99

Format: 288 pages, ebook

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality,… read more

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22. 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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  • artificial intelligence
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Cover of Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most by Steven Johnson

23. Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most

By: Steven Johnson

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The hardest choices are also the most consequential. So why do we know so little about how to get t… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. 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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  • technology
  • artificial intelligence
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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

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25. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

By: Ruha Benjamin

4.27

Format: 172 pages, ebook

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understa… read more

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  • artificial intelligence
  • technology
"Racism is, let us not forget, a means to reconcile contradictions. Only a society that extolled “liberty for all"

-Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

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26. Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI

By: John Brockman

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, … read more

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27. What To Do When Machines Do Everything: How to Get Ahead in a World of AI, Algorithms, Bots, and Big Data

By: Malcolm Frank

3.58

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

“Refreshingly thought-provoking…” – The Financial Times The essential playbook for the future of y… read more

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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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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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  • popular science
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30. Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it

By: Martin Ford

4.09

Format: 554 pages, Kindle Edition

Financial Times Best Books of the Year 2018 TechRepublic Top Books Every Techie Should Read Book … read more

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Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

31. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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Sean Carroll

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4.43

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3.84

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3.74

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