Best AI Books of 2024: How to Use and Understand the Tech
Ray Kurzweil’s predictions about technological advancements have intrigued—and unnerved—people for decades. At 76, he’s still quite up to the task and threw out a whopper within minutes of sitting down with me.
“When we achieve AGI in the 2030s, we’re going to actually merge this intelligence with ourselves,” Kurzweil said, with utter straightforwardness. (AGI, of course, is the technical term for AI that has achieved human-level intelligence.) “It will actually be inside your mind. By the end of the 2030s, everybody will be doing it, just the way everybody has a phone today.”
Kurzweil expounds upon this idea and quite a few more in his latest work, “The Singularity Is Nearer,” a follow-up to his best-seller from the 2000s, “The Singularity Is Near.” (See what he did there?) Amid another boom year for the AI industry, a whole slew of books about AI has hit the market—some better than others. I surveyed dozens of AI founders, investors and executives to find out their favorites and read up myself, too, assembling the list you’ll find below, which includes Kurzweil’s latest. His falls on the more theoretical end of things. Other books, like Ethan Mollick’s “Co-Intelligence,” offer some strong, practical advice for working with AI.
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