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Book Review: Goliath's Curse

Clash of the Titans It was about half way through this book that I stopped reading. I'm glad I returned to it, because Luke Kemp's book is genuinely astonishing and makes a series of wide-ranging p...

Nov 12, 2025

Book Review: The Thinking Machine

The Chips that Ate the World Generative AI as we know it is due almost entirely to one video game: Quake III: Arena. Without Quake III, and in particular John Carmack's obsessive search for the perfec...

Aug 18, 2025

Book Review: Co-Intelligence

Workers of the World - Unite! After the constant hype around super-intelligence, it makes a refreshing change to turn to a book that considers AI in the way that we should consider most technology:...

Jul 31, 2025

Book Review: The Technological Republic

The Failure of Silicon Valley If there was one thing that I didn't expect, it waS to agree so often with individual statements in a book which is so completely antithetical to many of my own views ...

Jul 13, 2025

Book Review: Taming Silicon Valley

The Wrong AI It would be incorrect to say that Gary Marcus's book stands alone regarding the potential dangers of AI, but it's certainly the case that his is amongst the most readable of such jeremiad...

Jun 22, 2025

Book Review: The Coming Wave - AI, Power and Our Future

AI and Containment Mustafa Suleyman is, quite simply, one of the most fascinating people currently working in the field of AI. His Syrian father was a taxi driver in London and his mother a nurse, a...

May 21, 2025

Book Review: Genius Makers - The Mavericks who brought AI to Google, Facebook and the World

Wood. Trees. Latter gets in the way. I do not give a damn about Geoff Hinton's back. That is the polite version of what I considered writing, which was a visceral feeling that developed approximatel...

Apr 28, 2025

Book Review: Code Dependent - How AI is Changing Our Lives

Artificial intelligence, real lives Published in paperback on March 6, Madhumita Murgia's Code Dependent: How AI is Changing Our Lives is a wide-ranging and highly readable account of the human...

Apr 9, 2025