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More Books about Generative AI

Here's an update to to my "Getting Started with LLMs and ChatGPT" list from early 2023, with a focus on our newest items and a few historic text to get you thinking.

Palo Alto City Library

13 items

  • This one was recently reccomened by an AI researcher I've been watching on YouTube. The idea is to help you understand how to tap into an LLM's "latent space" when answering questions (slow thinking), instead of yes/no answers (fast thinking).
    Book, 2011New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. — DPB 153.42 KAHNEMAN
  • The Philosopher of Palo Alto

    Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC, and the Original Internet of Things

    Tinnell, John,
    I read this recently and there are some *very* interesting parallels between Weiser's vision of Ubiquitous Computing and how we're now thinking about AI integration in our everyday life. What also surprised me is that most of the work at Xero PARC…
    Book, 2023Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023. — 338.761 WEISER TINNELL
  • Don't miss the learning packet on GitHub! https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Advanced-Chatbots-with-Deep-Learning-Python. There's lots more on O'Reilly books. You get instant access to these titles too.
    Downloadable Video, 2023[Place of publication not identified] : Packt Publishing, [2023]
  • I, Human

    AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique

    Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas,
    eBook, 2023[United States] : Harvard Business Review Press, 2023. — eBook hoopla
  • I, Human

    AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique

    Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas,
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2023[Place of publication not identified] : Ascent Audio, 2023.
  • ChatGPT and DALL-E

    Sell Your Creative Thinking With AI

    A highly controversial topic in some circles! Should you profit from AI output?
    Downloadable Video, 2023[Place of publication not identified] : Packt Publishing, 2023.
  • The Pirate's Dilemma

    How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism

    Mason, Matt (Matt James)
    Another take on the same issue of profits from generative AI. Are we at another copyright law crossroad like the Napster situation in the early 2000s?
    Book, 2008New York : Free Press, 2008. — 301.431 M411p
  • I heard in an interview that when Jaron Lanier lived in Palo Alto he was very close to Mitchell Park. Small world, eh? Here's another argument against generative AI to get you thinking.
    Book, 2010New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. — 303.4833 LANIER
  • The AI Dilemma

    7 Principles for Responsible Technology

    Powell, Juliette, 1976-
    Book, 2023Oakland, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., [2023] — 330.0285 POWELL
  • The AI Dilemma

    7 Principles for Responsible Technology

    Powell, Juliette, 1976-
    eBook, 2023Oakland, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., [2023]
  • You Are Not a Gadget

    Being Human in An Age of Technology

    Lanier, Jaron
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2010New York : Penguin Random House Audio, 2010. — LIBBY (OVERDRIVE)
  • Getting Started With Beautiful Soup

    Build Your Own Web Scraper and Learn All About Web Scraping With Beautiful Soup

    Nair, Vineeth G.
    This is an older title from 2014, but as more and more ChatBots get "browser" capabilities, I think it's helpful to understand how web scraping works and what are the limits of web data extraction.
    eBook, 2014Birmingham, UK : Packt Pub., 2014.