Category: Artificial Intelligence
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Book Review: Machines That Think: How AI Works and What It Means For Us
Book Review by Frank Cerwin: Machines That Think: How AI Works and What It Means For Us By Inga Strümke, Reinwerk Publishing, 2026 I came across this recently published book at my local library. Seems that I migrate to AI titles these days. The title sounded like another primer on AI but I decided to… Read more
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Book Review: AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
Book Review by Frank Cerwin: AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the DifferenceBy Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor, Princeton University Press, 2024 The title may dissuade many AI advocates among you from picking up this book. Yes, it is a cautionary tale of the risks inherent… Read more
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Book Review: A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence
Book Review by Frank Cerwin: A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence By Kartik Hosanagar – published by Viking/Penguin LLC, 2019 Technology algorithms that power artificial intelligence assist in making our decisions about what products to buy, where we eat, what news we see, whom to date, and who we hire. The author explores the world… Read more
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Book Review: The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
Book Review by Frank Cerwin: The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI By Fei-Fei Li – published by Flatiron Books, 2023 This book is heralded as Financial Time’s best books of 2023 and the author, Dr. Fei-Fei Li, is noted as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people… Read more
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Book Review: Four Battlegrounds: The Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Book Review by Frank Cerwin Four Battlegrounds: The Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence By Paul Scharre 2023, W.W. Norton & Co. The author, Paul Scharre is the vice president and director of studies at the Center for a New American Security. He is a former Pentagon policy analyst and a former Army… Read more