In AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence, journalist Gary Rivlin closely follows founders and venture capitalists and brings readers into the world of AI development in Silicon Valley. In a narrative shot through familiar names such as Musk, Zuckerberg, and Gates, Rivlin gives readers a deep understanding of what’s around the corner for AI. Stephen Witt’s The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip tells the astonishing story of how Nvidia,…
In The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything, James Barrat shares tools to navigate the complex and often chaotic landscape of modern AI during an unprecedented era of technological growth. Through interviews with AI pioneers, he delves into the unstable trajectory of the technology’s development, its potential for modest benefits – and its potentially catastrophic consequences. In More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity, Adam Becker investigates the implausible and often immoral visions of tomorrow imagined by tech titans such as Elon Musk,…