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From: Titus G <noone@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Non Fiction. The Worlds I See. Fei-fei Li.
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:08:15 +1300
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After perusing Best Of AI books, I began with The Worlds I See by
Fei-fei Li, a Stanford Professor at time of writing. Although it was as
much a personal tale of her mainly academic life, it described her
contributions especially in regard to computer vision and pattern
recognition. I found it fascinating though much of the terminology at
times was beyond my knowledge or experience. It would be more difficult
without a background in IT. Her conclusion and current emphasis is that
AI should be evolved with a humanistic concern.
I also have Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom and
Artificial Intelligence by Melanie Mitchell yet to read.
Has anybody read these?
Asimov's books of the individual AI enthralled me years ago and more
recently, so did Alastair Reynolds' tales of an all powerful AI's
infiltration and control of a future universe's electronic systems.
It is more scary reading about reality!