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With the recent attention returning to all things AI, I discovered a few books sitting on my shelves – purely by accident. Their AI threads are strong and well constructed – and somewhat prosaic even. Hope you enjoy these. And share your favorite artificial intelligence reads.

Machinehood  Divya tries to tackle everything from the relationship between Neo-Buddhism and artificial intelligence, to the virtues and evils of economic systems, to abortion and the rights one has to one’s own body, to the marvels of modern medicine and technology and the corruptions of the companies facilitating it.

100  years in the future and society relies on machines for practically every task – cooking, cleaning, and manufacturing daily medicines in your home.

Robots had taken over so many jobs, the only way for humans to compete, was by taking pills.

Pills called “flow” for focus and analysis, “zips” to enhance strength and durability, “juvers” were taken like antibiotics to heal or reduce pain (A good part  of the story is around the downside of the practically unregulated drugs).

Clone – Priya Chabra

The story of a fourteenth-generation clone in twenty-fourth-century India who struggles against it’s own expanding consciousness.  Superb prose, told from the clone’s viewpoint – terms such as hesitancy and reluctance  – unsure feelings for a clone. The necessary questions Chabria raises revolve around a clone and human shared world

The Turing option

Slightly dated 1992 – An AI techno-thriller;

Anuj holds professional certifications in Google Cloud, AWS as well as certifications in Docker and App Performance Tools such as New Relic. He specializes in Cloud Security, Data Encryption and Container Technologies.

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