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Also at my blog . This book describes itself as the work of ‘the ultimate insider’. This seems rather apt as it provides us with a glimpse of what the technocratic chattering class are saying about the current AI moment. Unfortunately it doesn’t provide us with insight into how this current moment wil Leggi tutto

Mustafa Suleyman was a cofounder of Deep Mind and is the current CEO of Inflection AI. The Coming Wave is Suleyman‘s warning regarding the dangers that await humanity at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and synthetic biology (SB). Suleyman argues (very convincingly) how EXTRAORDINARILY Leggi tutto

Suleyman intends to write about the positive and negative consequences of the unavoidable rise of AI and biotech, and how this wave can be channeled to the benefit of societies - and while I support the idea that an expert (which he, as an AI entrepreneur, undoubtedly is) writes for the masses that

This book attempts to bridge the dense realms of technology and societal power dynamics. Now, before you yawn and click away, let me assure you: this isn’t just another heavy-handed technocratic manifesto. Suleyman takes a nuanced approach. However, like many ambitious endeavors, this book nails it Leggi tutto

I've read this one because of the background of its author. You don't read the book by the founder of DeepMind every second day, right? Sadly, I am a bit disappointed in the end. Why so? 1. The author does very well when it comes to presenting potential threats related to the further development of th Leggi tutto

Suleyman co-founded Deep Mind, a revolutionary AI company, now part of Google. He left because he dislikes big, slow organizations. He's running Inflection AI to give us personal assistants. He discusses: - Stable Diffusion which "lets anyone produce bespoke and ultrarealistic images for free." - "Artifi Leggi tutto

Slap a label on a sophisticated program that helps people do things using language by calling it Artificial Intelligence and then write a book that hypes the technology beyond itself such that it makes the reader forget that it’s just a clever program, that’s what this author does. This book read as Leggi tutto

It’s more like three stars, but because the topic is so urgent and relevant, it gets an extra. We have all heard of AI and seen the movies and maybe some even think it’s a matter of consciousness. It’s not. The real issue is that AI will, within the next few years, do a lot of jobs better than human Leggi tutto

"The Coming Wave" (2023) is a book about the current state of AI that needs to be read because it was written by Mustafa Suleyman, the founder of DeepMind, the company acquired by Google in 2014 for 400 million and which beat the Go world champion, Lee Sedol, in 2016. In other words, if you want to