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\ud83d\udcda Finished reading The Road to Conscious Machines<\/a><\/em> by Michael Wooldridge. This is the second AI-focused book that I\u2019ve read in recent weeks; it covers a lot of similar ground to Melanie Mitchell\u2019s Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans<\/a><\/em>, but felt much more of a chronological whistle-stop tour of the history than an education on how<\/em> the technology works. The two definitely compliment each other, which I guess is how Pelican Books<\/a>, the publishers of both, felt as well. Both are very good. Once again I\u2019m wondering what parts of the book would need to be updated to reflect the generative AI<\/a> world we have been living in for the past year or so.<\/p>\n

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I loved the idea that our consciousness as a species may have evolved from the need to be able to put ourselves in other peoples\u2019 shoes. If I can think about how you will feel if I do something, it may influence whether I do the thing or not. Absolutely fascinating.<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udcda Finished reading The Road to Conscious Machines by Michael Wooldridge. This is the second AI-focused book that I\u2019ve read in recent weeks; it covers a lot of similar ground to Melanie Mitchell\u2019s Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, but felt much more of a chronological whistle-stop tour of the history than an education […]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-snippets","7":"post_format-post-format-status","8":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10377,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2023\/09\/02\/the-intelligence-illusion\/","url_meta":{"origin":10316,"position":0},"title":"\ud83d\udcda The Intelligence Illusion","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"2 September 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Finished reading The Intelligence Illusion by Baldur Bjarnason, as recommended to me by Chris Verbree on micro.blog. 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