Content tagged with "ai"

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Book Review
April 29, 2020
124

“A good primer to the field. Hits the right depth between technical and theoretical layers, including quite a bit on ethics. My takeaway is that we’re really, really far away from anything approaching what we think artificial intelligence was going to be. The key is that there’s a difference between…”

Artificial Intelligence Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction
Book Review
November 13, 2019
72

“More of an anthology, perhaps? This book fulfills it’s title, but it careens around weirdly in scope. It goes from very high-level to very low-level. I’m torn on it. It was helpful to prove the point that AI is really category, not a single technology. I’d give it a 3.5 if I could.”

The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI
Deane’s Library
Book Review
December 1, 2023
227

“This book tries to answer the question: will AI ever be able to emulate human creativity? It never really answers the question, but it’s still very, very interesting. Each chapter covers a different type of creativity: writing, music, art, etc. It’s full of examples and anecdotes about the advances…”

Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
Deane’s Library
Book Review
March 17, 2024
220

“I did not love this book. There’s a potential for a good book there, but it’s wrapped up in a very annoying writing style. The book is a look at the history of how we have automated text generation. The author goes back into ancient times, and moves forward to Eliza and Claude Shannon, then…”