18 best-selling technology books like Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence (Strong Ideas) by Elena Esposito

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Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence (Strong Ideas)

By: Elena Esposito

3.24

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

A proposal that we think about digital technologies such as machine learning not in terms of artifi…

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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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  • artificial intelligence
  • technology
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2. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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3. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler

3.84

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more

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  • sociology
"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."

-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"

-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

4. A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, follow… read more

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5. Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life

By: None

4.67

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

A field manual to the technologies that are changing our lives at bewildering speed Everywhere we t… read more

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6. Ringworld (Ringworld, #1)

By: Larry Niven

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pierson's puppeteers, three-leg two-head aliens find immense structure in unexplored part of the un… read more

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7. The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information

By: Frank Pasquale

3.80

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Every day, corporations are connecting the dots about our personal behavior--silently scrutinizing … read more

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8. Where Monsters Lie

By: Kyle Starks

3.71

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A brand-new meta-horror story that's Cabin in the Woods meets Tucker and Dale vs. Evil . Haven’t… read more

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9. Quantum Supremacy

By: Michio Kaku

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may… read more

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  • technology
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10. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

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"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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11. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

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"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

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12. 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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  • artificial intelligence
  • 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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13. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

By: Steven H. Strogatz

4.30

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled … read more

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  • technology
"For reasons nobody understands, the universe is deeply mathematical. Maybe God made it that way. Or maybe it’s the only way a universe with us in it could be, because nonmathematical universes can’t …"

-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

"With the star up above and the blackness of space, I can't avoid feeling awe. How could we, Homo sapiens, an insignificant species on an insignificant planet adrift in a middleweight galaxy, have man…"

-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

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14. 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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  • artificial intelligence
  • technology
"Curiosity bred competence."

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

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15. 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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  • artificial intelligence
  • 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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16. Do a Powerbomb!

By: Daniel Warren Johnson

4.52

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

From the creator of MURDER-FALCON and WONDER WOMAN: DEAD EARTH comes the wrestling adventure of the… read more

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17. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

By: Sabine Hossenfelder

3.92

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more

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"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

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18. 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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  • artificial intelligence
  • 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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19. Deacon King Kong

By: James McBride

4.17

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The funny, sharp, and surprising story of the shooting of a Brooklyn drug dealer and the people who… read more

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"Friendship was trouble in business."

-James McBride, Deacon King Kong

"You’ve got to be strong to get old."

-James McBride, Deacon King Kong

"A man ain’t got to stand in church every Sunday to do God’s work."

-James McBride, Deacon King Kong

"Is your cheese this good? This wasn’t plain old housing projects “cheese food"

-James McBride, Deacon King Kong

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20. 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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  • artificial intelligence
  • 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

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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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  • artificial intelligence
  • technology
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22. 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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  • artificial intelligence
  • technology
"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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23. Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

By: James Bridle

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching explor… read more

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  • technology
"What would it mean to build artificial intelligences and other machines that were more like octopuses, more like fungi, or more like forests?"

-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

"We can’t read water in the same way as we can’t read data…Working with it makes us more aware of the distance between ourselves and the matter under consideration: it reminds us that we share this wo…"

-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

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24. 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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  • artificial intelligence
  • 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

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25. New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

By: James Bridle

4.05

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

“New Dark Age is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about the Internet, whi… read more

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  • sociology
  • technology
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26. Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

By: Virginia Eubanks

4.01

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and hum… read more

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  • sociology
  • artificial intelligence
  • technology
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27. Beyond the Burn Line

By: Paul McAuley

3.53

Format: 455 pages, Kindle Edition

A novel about posthuman Earth, colonisation, Ufology, and secret histories. It's two hundred thous… read more

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28. AI Ethics

By: Mark Coeckelbergh

3.69

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

An accessible synthesis of ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence that moves beyond hype … read more

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  • artificial intelligence
  • technology
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29. Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, and the Logic of Capitalism

By: Justin Joque

3.82

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The rise of AI and algorithms refiguring contemporary capitalism Our finances, politics, media, op… read more

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  • artificial intelligence
  • technology
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30. Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence (Strong Ideas)

By: Elena Esposito

3.24

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

A proposal that we think about digital technologies such as machine learning not in terms of artifi… read more

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  • sociology
  • artificial intelligence
  • technology
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31. The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI

By: Ben Buchanan

4.16

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

AI is revolutionizing the world. Here’s how democracies can come out on top. Artificial intelligen… read more

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  • artificial intelligence
  • technology

14 must-read artificial intelligence books like Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence (Strong Ideas) by Elena Esposito

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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Nick Bostrom

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Brian Christian

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

Stuart Russell

4.06

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Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

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Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

Alastair Reynolds

4.36

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The Terraformers

Annalee Newitz

3.37

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Nick Harkaway

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