Dear friends, Happy New Year!
May it bring much joy, calm and useful learning to all of you.
The world is changing, and as daunting the dynamics may be, there is always a silver lining, and there is always a lot of opportunity in great changes. We believe that one of the greatest challenges in the new year will be a fast and broad spread of Applied AI, but we fear it will be very uneven – those who understand it will hurry to apply it, those who don’t will fret about its ethics and regulation. It is a crucial democratic task to spread the knowledge about AI so all can benefit and all can matter.
That is why we have chosen to focus as much of the first quarter as possible on Applied AI, the mathematics of AI and data science, and the business of digital and data in the fourth industrial revolution. Our next months will have playlists on these topics. These books are written by the best voices in the world on the topics, and we hope you join us in trying to understand this fast future we are all a part of in 2024.
We have lined up these cool books for you in January 2024:
240101-107 Kai-Fu Lee: AI Superpowers
https://nextbook.me/107-kai-fu-lee-ai-superpowers/
240104-122 Martin Ford: Architects of Intelligence
https://nextbook.me/122-martin-ford-architects-of-intelligence/
240108-195 Terrence J. Sejnowski: The Deep Learning Revolution
https://nextbook.me/195-terrence-j-sejnowski-the-deep-learning-revolution/
240111-146 Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence
https://nextbook.me/146-nick-bostrom-superintelligence/
240115-161 Ray Kurzweil: The singularity is near
https://nextbook.me/161-ray-kurzweil-the-singularity-is-near/
240118-321 Marco Iansiti, Karim R. Lakhani: Competing in the age of AI
https://nextbook.me/321-marco-iansiti-karim-r-lakhani-competing-in-the-age-of-ai/
240122-180 Sean Gerrish, Kevin Scott: How Smart Machines Think
https://nextbook.me/180-sean-gerrish-kevin-scott-how-smart-machines-think/
240125-322 Mario Grunitz, Paula Ferrai, Samantha Wolhuter: Working Machines
https://nextbook.me/322-mario-grunitz-paula-ferrai-samantha-wolhuter-working-machines/
240129-062 Ed Finn: What Algorithms Want
https://nextbook.me/062-ed-finn-what-algorithms-want/
The whole playlist can be found on: https://nextbook.me/playlist/january-2024-ai/
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