Artificial Intelligence in 2020

Artificial Intelligence Books are a good source to learn about Augmented Reality, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

This is the era of artificial intelligence, technology and augmented reality. Things are changing every day we can see around lots of changes happening in our day to day life due to advancement in technology and artificial intelligence.We can do many task just in a blink all because of artificial intelligence.

Here are some books through which we can easily learn A.I. and augmented reality-

1-THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR – RAY KURZWEIL-

Ray Kurzweil is the undisputed Elvis of the Singularity/Transhumanism movement. He is convinced that artificial superintelligence (AI that exceeds human intelligence) will be upon us by 2045. He is equally a champion of radical life extension (or ‘life expansion’ as he calls it).

The Singularity Is Near is one of Kurzweil’s most seminal works. It centres around the author’s predictions for the future as he sees it over the coming decades, including his views regarding the feasibility of ultimately reaching the point of ‘mind upload’ whereby we live forever in a Matrix-esque simulation.

2-THE SECOND MACHINE AGE: WORK, PROGRESS, AND PROSPERITY IN A TIME OF BRILLIANT TECHNOLOGIES – ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON & ANDREW MCAFEE

This New York Times bestseller by MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee is highly regarded for the way in which it reveals the true extent of the technological revolution in which we are living.

There are generally two types of artificial intelligence books, in my experience. There are the nail-bitingly negative ones, that paint the technological future as some dystopian wasteland. Then, there are ones that leave you positively excited about all the things that are to come. Rather than worrying about your children’s future, you feel a sense of peace, knowing that their standard of living will be better than your own. This book is the latter.

 

3-DEEP THINKING: WHERE MACHINE INTELLIGENCE ENDS AND HUMAN CREATIVITY BEGINS – GARRY KASPAROV

Deep Thinking - Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov, you may remember, was the chess champion that was defeated by IBM’s Deep Blue back in 1997. Rather than disappearing into obscurity, Kasparov has used his experience as the springboard for a career as a spokesperson for artificial intelligence.

It is Kasparov’s view that we should be aiming to find ways in which humans and machines can collaborate to produce better results than either could achieve independently from the other. Through this, we resolve that anxiety about being replaced and, instead, think ahead to conquering upcoming challenges.

4-TO BE A MACHINE: ADVENTURES AMONG CYBORGS, UTOPIANS, HACKERS, AND THE FUTURISTS SOLVING THE MODEST PROBLEM OF DEATH – MARK O’CONNELL

This was one of the most interesting artificial intelligence books I read in 2017. O’Connell goes on a journey to discover the depths of the transhumanism movement, and boy, what a world he uncovers! From subdermal implants to cryogenics – and just about everything in between – this is a mind-boggling romp through the new American Dream – a race of cyber-humans that may mark our species’ next evolutionary milestone.

As I mentioned above, there are two types of artificial intelligent book. This one is not particularly optimistic in its viewpoint, with the author concluding that the meat machine that is the human body is somehow sacred. Nonetheless, there’s some serious food for thought here that you simply must devour.

5-THE MASTER ALGORITHM: HOW THE QUEST FOR THE ULTIMATE LEARNING MACHINE WILL REMAKE OUR WORLD – PEDRO DOMINGOS

Domingos is one of the leading players in the world of machine learning. That is a sure sign that you’re in for a serious learning curve with this book. In The Master Algorithm, Domingos makes it clear the sheer extent to which algorithms run our lives, before going into some depth about the importance of and the ways in which machine learning is forming the fabric of the future.

6-IN OUR OWN IMAGE – GEORGE ZARKADAKIS

Humanity has always had a fascination with building a version of ourselves. The origins of AI, Zarkadakis argues, date back to ancient mythology, and can be seen throughout storytelling over time. Perhaps this urge to reproduce ourselves (in this way) is a primitive evolutionary trait, and Zarkadakis goes into depth exploring this notion and its evidence in archaeological, cultural and biological fact and conjecture.

7-OUR FINAL INVENTION: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE END OF THE HUMAN ERA – JAMES BARRAT

If you feel like getting all tinfoil hat, Elon Musk, Chicken Little, batshit paranoid about AI, then this is the book for you!

This book, despite feeling a bit hysterical at times, is a sobering look at where all our enthusiasm for AI could lead us. I read this book at around the same time that I watched the movie Transcendence, which might have been a very bad idea, as I subsequently spent months worrying about when the robo-pocalypse might strike.

8-HOW TO CREATE A MIND – RAY KURZWEIL

Once again, we turn to Ray Kurzweil, and specifically his vision of a world in which humans and machines live side by side. Contrary to the view put forth in Zarkadakis’ book (above), Kurzweil is adamant that we will, one day, unlock the secret of consciousness.

This book is a dazzling and delicious rhapsody of the wonders that machine learning may have in store for us. Kurzweil’s enthusiasm and confidence are as infectious as they are (at times) far-fetched.