Lake Bluff Library Adult Reading Lists: AI for the Curious

The moving memoir of a girl coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling as a scientist at the forefront of the AI/Machine Learning revolution. Fei-Fei Li is known to the world as the creator of ImageNet, a key catalyst of modern artificial intelligence (AI). But her career in science was improbable from the start. Moving from China's middle class to American poverty, her family navigated the hardships of immigrant life while struggling to care for an ailing mother at every step. However, Fei-Fei's adolescent knack for physics endured, sparking a journey that would lead her to computer science, experimental cognitive science, and, ultimately, the still-obscure world of AI.
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Within the next five years, Kahn predicts, AI will disrupt almost every industry and enterprise. It will restructure the workforce, revamp education, revolutionize health care, and compel us to reimagine how we make art. But while this new technology has a bright future, it also casts a dark and fearful shadow. Kahn argues. that if not carefully designed and vigilantly regulated, AI will deepen income inequality, undermine democracy, and rewire our brains—unless we all take decisive action to prevent this from happening.
(Description from NoveList)

Silicon Valley has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of millions laboring under often appalling conditions to make A.I. possible. This book presents an urgent, riveting investigation of the intricate network that maintains this exploitative system, revealing the untold truth of A.I.
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From two of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI—and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products.
(Description from Amazon)

Artificial intelligence has become an integral part of our everyday lives. But it remains an elusive, complex and intimidating technology that has hundreds of iterations and nuances. With Confident AI, build your confidence when working with AI by learning the fundamentals and discovering the intricacies of the industry.
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From the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, Stalinism, Nazism and the resurgence of populism today, an historian and philosopher explores human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world, addressing the urgent choices we face as nonhuman intelligence threatens our very existence.
(Description from NoveList)

We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. None of us are prepared.
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This successor volume to The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will refashion the human race in the decades to come. In this entirely new book, Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances in the singularity--assessing the progress of many of his predictions and examining the novel advancements that, in the near future, will bring a revolution in knowledge and an expansion of human potential. (description from catalog)

World-renowned innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan and digital strategy expert Venkat Venkataraman offer a first-of-a-kind playbook that will help companies combine what they do best-create physical products-with what digitals do best-use algorithms and artificial intelligence to parse ginormous, interconnected datasets-to make strategic connections that would otherwise be impossible.
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