[shoshin23]

Superintelligence by nick bostrom. It's a book that explores how superintelligence could emerge, the different ways it can take off and what it means to us as humans. More importantly, the book takes on the difficult task of figuring out ways to make sure the AI is safe and not land up in the wrong hands. Pretty interesting read that doesnt really require technical know-how.

[curuinor]

There is lots of content in this book but there is no practical technical content in this book. Interesting philosophy.

Much of AI philosophy is done by extremely non-practitioners. John Searle can't code. Nick Bostrom came to coding extremely late in life. Geoffrey Hinton and the other ex-PDP folks wrote some philosophy papers, though, which are of interest if you like the philosophy.

[adastra]

The book is interesting, but the level of detail he goes into in some of his speculation is completely unjustified. It's kind of ridiculous.

"There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about." - von Neumann