Name book: Artificial Intelligence

Depends what you want. Two rather recent books are vN and iD by Madeline Ashby.

Another tip is to look at what members have tagged as books about artificial intelligence: https://www.librarything.com/tag/artificial+intelligence

There's always the classic Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov. The robot, R. Daneel Olivaw is artificially intelligent.

There's The Turing Option, written jointly by Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky.

>2 anglemark:

A "science fiction, artificial intelligence" mashup might be more useful. There are a lot of CS and post-humanist books in that tag.

>1 bookshelf_r:

What do you mean by "about"? Are books featuring an AI character what you're looking for, or for books exploring the philosophical ramifications of the creation or existence of artificial intelligence?

You might try Sean O'Brien's Beltrunner. AI's plan a major part in the story

Beltrunner is easy to read and a good read. Its got action non-stop. It had good world creation, well developed characters, including the AI, and very good plot line. I'd say it was my favorite of the books I have recently read. One of the better written books.

>13 bookshelf_r: If you type ">" and then the number of the post you are replying to, it'll appear as a link as at the beginning of this message. Makes it easier to see who you're replying to :-)

>15 bookshelf_r: Spot on!

>17 bookshelf_r: You keep asking that question. After noting the other comments you've made (elsewhere, not on this thread), I'd think it would be more useful to add books that you like to your library, and actually participate in discussions, rather than skirting around the topic of AI and Science Fiction. Several people have posted very interesting responses. Rather than responding to them, you just seem to parrot back with the "what is your favorite sci-fi" question.

Add some books. Lurk a while. LT is a pretty good place for talking about books, and for discovering books you might not have found otherwise.

What she said. Though the books in my Favorites collection tagged SF are a start.

What have you been impressed by lately?

>20 bookshelf_r: You seem to be a REALLY slow learner.

Note that you've now been warned THREE times about this.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/219521#5499994

Kristie is staff, and warned you specifically about this. I'll come back in a bit. If you haven't changed the content of your post, expect it to be flagged.

Honestly. I'd say more, but I'm busy with work outside.

Here's the review of Collective Mind that counts:

http://www.amazon.com/Collective-Mind-Vasily-Klyukin-ebook/product-reviews/B01CB...

Yeah, yeah, I'm heartless.

I wondered how long it would take before the dear Vasily came around to promoting his novel. Thick as a brick.

But for other people who're interested in AI, then the dying light trilogy is quite good. Or of course the recent award winning ancillary justice

I was beginning to get the feeling that the removed user was itself actually an unsophisticated AI program, to judge by its responses...

>the op's profile picture was pretty hot for a sock puppet though.

Bleah, and I honestly tried to be helpful. What a naive doofus I was.

>25 RobertDay:

Perhaps, given enough time, we could have gotten it to misbehave the way they did with Tay:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)

Android girls have been pretty rowdy this month:

http://www.cnet.com/news/crazy-eyed-robot-wants-a-family-and-to-destroy-all-huma...

>26 justifiedsinner: It's a stock photo. The original image was the book cover.

>27 lorax: Not a doofus. Kindness is never wasted.

I'd also add that this thread makes me more likely to pick up and start reading the Ancillary stuff soon.

I was very surprised at the Minsky/Harrison collaboration. Minsky was so brilliant in the field, and I've always loved Harry's writing. The Turing Option was okay, but I keep it out of sentiment and fondness, and not because I'd read it again (although you never know).

>29 paradoxosalpha:

Thanks for sharing. My daughter and I got a kick out of it. :)

>30 Lyndatrue:

Kindness is never wasted.

Axiomatic, that.

This topic always reminds me of my favorite review, that I saw from Seth Breidbart, about David Gerrold's When Harlie Was One. And I'm not a fan of mean reviews.

"What David Gerrold doesn't know about AI would fill a book. That book is called "When Harlie Was One."

So, bookshelf R was killed by an A.I. ????? Is that what happened???

>33 DugsBooks:

Yup. Shoulda listened to Frank Poole. :(

>33 DugsBooks: Well, i was beginning to think bookshelf R WAS an A.I. The exchanges were beginning to read like a dialogue that some developers I knew who worked for Rolls Royce back in the 1970s wrote for an early exercise in A.I. development.

>27 lorax: No good deed goes unpunished.

>34 artturnerjr: neat lol

>35 RobertDay: Yep, I intuited banality from the erased posts and wondered if it were an incident related to this article:

Microsoft’s racist chatbot returns with drug-smoking Twitter meltdown

>36 DugsBooks: It was a person, not a bot. It appears to have either been the author, or an agent of the author (agent in the sense of acting for him, not in the sense of representing him for any financial gain). It was a self published title, available as an eBook.

Here's a little light reading for the vaguely curious:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/218308#5529293 (that's over in Spam Fighters)

Everyone thinks that they're able to game the system. It's a lack of respect for the intellect of the audience. The effort was meant to lead someone into finally asking what books that bookshelf_r thought were interesting, so as to respond, ever so innocently, with the title that had already generated two warnings on the profile (one of them from staff).

(finally accomplished in >19 mart1n:)

So it goes.

>37 Lyndatrue: Au contraire, he fell victim to my cunning plan to expose his spaminess!

Ok, not really.