Artificial Intelligence - Peter Jennings

Peter Jennings
Aurora York Central PROBUS Club

Links from my recent talk

Thank you for coming to my talk on November 12 at the Aurora York Central PROBUS Club.

As promised, here are some links for further reading and exploration of Artificial Intelligence.

Review the presentation by listening to this AI generated podcast courtesy of Google NotebookLM. I gave it a copy of my slides and the artificial speakers will tell you what they understood from them in a conversational style.

If you have any questions about AI or anything else, I suggest chatting with Maya or Miles on sesame.com or posing your question on Perplexity.ai.

Books to Read

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order — by Kai-Fu Lee

Kai-Fu Lee believes China will be the next tech-innovation superpower and in AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, he explains why. Taiwan-born Lee is perfectly positioned for the task. In this thought-provoking book, Lee argues powerfully that because of the unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected. Indeed, as the US-Sino AI competition begins to heat up, Lee urges the US and China to both accept and to embrace the great responsibilities that come with significant technological power.

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI — by Yuval Noah Harari

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI—a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive?

The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want — by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna

Emily Bender coined the term Stochastic Parrot to describe Large Language Models. A smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks and pitfalls of technology sold under this banner, and why it’s crucial to recognize the many ways in which AI hype covers for a small set of power-hungry actors at work and in the world.

On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots ACM Paper by Emily Bender et al.

Today Then: America's Best Minds Look 100 Years into the Future on the Occasion of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition — by David Walter

In essays originally published in newspapers as a prelude to the 1893 Columbian Exposition (Chicago), 74 noted social commentators from the fields of science, politics, commerce, education, religion, and the arts predict life in 100 years. Fascinating, if not always foresightful.