In Part 3 of the book Captain Kanaan worries out loud about the geopolitical implications of AI. “ Regardless of their locations, cloud computing simply allows us to instantaneously draw upon the strength, software, and information of other computers -which are inevitably more powerful, equipped, and versatile than our own.” But it was his review of neural networks in Chapter 9 that I would have to call my favorite, not only because it brought back good memories, but because it showed how far the field has come since it first gained my attention in the late 1980s. “ Cloud computing is just a means of accessing all aspects of computing services over the internet,” he explains. Among the many explanations, analogies, and insights in the book, his description of cloud computing in Chapter 8 was precious. As the US Air Force Captain explains in this interview, his book is organized in three parts: Part 1 provides context, part 2 defines AI, and part 3 addresses its implications.Ĭaptain Kanaan has a talent for explaining complex concepts in brief and basic terms. Amazon’s description of the book is pretty solid, so I included it below, after my Highlighted Passages – where I also added a number of interesting links to videos and articles. The author succeeds in weaving the complex building blocks of AI into the history of human intelligence – from the invention of language in Chapter 2, to automatically-generated texts in Chapter 16.
This was a great book because it educated on a complex topic without being dry or unnecessarily long.
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