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An untidy history of AI across four books

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/lessons-of-babel/articles/perplexity

31•ewf•1h ago

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jstanley•1h ago

The four books discussed in that passage are:

AI Snake Oil – by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor

Nexus – by Yuval Noah Harari

Genesis – by Henry Kissinger, Craig Mundie, and Eric Schmidt

The Singularity Is Nearer – by Ray Kurzweil

ks2048•1h ago

Henry Kissinger, noted AI expert.

homarp•1h ago

well craig mundie and eric schmidt not much better

KerrAvon•54m ago

it's not complimentary about them, FWIW

DebtDeflation•35m ago

In 20 years, Kurzweil will write another book entitled, "The Singularity is Almost Here".

FungalRaincloud•14m ago

He's 77 years old. Let the man retire, damn.

rishi_rt•57m ago

Aravind Narayanan seems to be the only guy qualified enough to be called an expert.

dang•11m ago

HN's own https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=randomwalker!

kouru225•48m ago

Ok so what is this publication? Because apparently they’ve been around since the 90s. I’ve never heard of them though. Their title and its reference suggests a very strong philosophical stance about something and I imagine that because of that they have political leanings, but I can’t tell what their leanings are

FungalRaincloud•16m ago

The Hedgehog Review? Yes, they've been around since 1999, and publish a few times a year. But I'm not sure where you're leaping to a strong political leaning. They're an academic journal published by the University of Virginia. I don't religiously follow them, but I've been cursorily aware of them for a while. I don't think I've ever considered them to lean one way or another when reading their publications.

PeterStuer•41m ago

Read "brainmakers", even though it completely ignores Europe's and the East's significant contributions to AI history https://www.newquistbooks.com/brainmakers/brainmakers.html

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