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The Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future. Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar

Soon you will live surrounded by AIs.
In a world of quantum computers, robot assistants and abundant energy, they will organise your life, operate your business, and run government services.
None of us are prepared.
Mustafa Suleyman has been at the centre of this revolution. The next decade, he explains, will be defined by a wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies. These will create immense prosperity but also present risks.
How do we ensure the flourishing of humankind?
How do we maintain control over these technologies?
And how do we find the narrow path to a successful future? In this groundbreaking book we learn how to think about the essential challenge of our age.
Be prepared. Read The Coming Wave.
**CHOSEN AS ONE OF BILL GATES' BOOKS TO KEEP YOU WARM THIS HOLIDAY SEASON**
**A New York Times and Instant Sunday Times bestseller, Sept 2023**

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11. People also ask

Is the coming wave worth reading?

Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a policymaker, or someone simply trying to understand where the world is heading, you should read this book.

It won't give you easy answers, but it will help you ask the right questions—and leave you better prepared to ride the coming wave, instead of getting swept away by it.

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Book 2

Bill Gates thinks everyone should read his “favorite book on AI,” one that predicts artificial intelligence will change what most jobs look like — across nearly every industry — within the next five years.

The book is called “The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma.”

Published in 2023, it was written by AI pioneer Mustafa Suleyman, who co-founded the research lab DeepMind. He sold it to Google in 2014 and now serves as CEO of Microsoft AI.

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Book 3

GAI and LLMs for Dummies

Book 4

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Artificial Intelligence - Yorick Wilks Read inside on the right.

Less in this book than meets the eye.
The cover includes "Or Dangerous Future?" Looking at the index, under D & F reveals nothing.
Nothing on the Contents page. Text often 0.1cm.
This book is full of minute text often on peculiar colours.
Take page 77 for example. Font size 1 if you are lucky on a light blue background.
P 71 is the same as, indeed, are so many pages.
Page 65: there's text at 1ml. P 89 etc it's 0.5ml.
P 43 and there's a big batch of text you'd need a Jodrell Bank telescope to see at 6cm distance. On a blue background. the text explaining the photo is half that size.
P 175 and we see white lines and text the size of a pinprick. The title aptly says Deception ...
P 206 has the title The Companion's Life after Death. The next page informs us as to how gruesome AI is going. Note the relative font size.
..some people are now allowing their Companion avatars to be questioned by relatives at their funerals.
Thank the www that I only paid £1.20 via the local library to reserve the book. Prefer it was in stock.
British computer scientist Professor Yorick Wilks died on 14 April 2023 at the age of 83. source

Book 5

Artificial Intelligence - From Machine Learning to Superintelligence and The Singularity

Richard Urwin 2024

Download 34 pp

1 Am azon £7.99

What is artificial intelligence?

What problems does it solve?

Should we fear its potential?

In this highly accessible guide to the subject, Richard Urwin explains how AI came about and how it has developed over the years through the construction of ever more sophisticated computer programs.
From primitive calculators and early robotics to stock market analytics and ChatGPT, readers can explore the history and far-reaching capabilities of this dynamic field and its potentially frightening possibilities.

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Mastering AI - A Survival Guide to our Superpowered Future £10.11

Format: Paperback / softback

336 pages

We stand on the threshold of a new age ? one where content of all kinds, even software itself, will be conjured, seemingly from thin air, with simple conversation.
In a culture fraught with misinformation, Mastering AI pierces through the thicket of exaggerated claims, explaining how we arrived at this moment and mapping the likely long-term impacts on business, economics, culture and society this potent technology will have.
This book will serve as a guide to those dangers ? as well as highlighting the technology?s transformative potential ? and will pinpoint concrete steps that should be taken to regulate generative AI.

No idea what purpose the ??? serve.

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Books, Articles & Sites of interest/benefit

From 27 May 2025, all new entries will be dated.

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Book 1

The Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future. Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar

11. People also ask

Is the coming wave worth reading?

Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a policymaker, or someone simply trying to understand where the world is heading, you should read this book.

It won't give you easy answers, but it will help you ask the right questions—and leave you better prepared to ride the coming wave, instead of getting swept away by it.

Book 2

Bill Gates thinks everyone should read his “favorite book on AI,” one that predicts artificial intelligence will change what most jobs look like — across nearly every industry — within the next five years.

The book is called “The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma.”

Published in 2023, it was written by AI pioneer Mustafa Suleyman, who co-founded the research lab DeepMind. He sold it to Google in 2014 and now serves as CEO of Microsoft AI.

Book 3

Book 4

not so good - more

Artificial Intelligence - Yorick Wilks Read inside on the right.

Less in this book than meets the eye.

The cover includes "Or Dangerous Future?" Looking at the index, under D & F reveals nothing.

Nothing on the Contents page. Text often 0.1cm.

This book is full of minute text often on peculiar colours.

Take page 77 for example. Font size 1 if you are lucky on a light blue background.

P 71 is the same as, indeed, are so many pages.

Page 65: there's text at 1ml. P 89 etc it's 0.5ml.

P 43 and there's a big batch of text you'd need a Jodrell Bank telescope to see at 6cm distance. On a blue background. the text explaining the photo is half that size.

P 175 and we see white lines and text the size of a pinprick. The title aptly says Deception ...

P 206 has the title The Companion's Life after Death. The next page informs us as to how gruesome AI is going. Note the relative font size.

..some people are now allowing their Companion avatars to be questioned by relatives at their funerals.

Thank the www that I only paid £1.20 via the local library to reserve the book. Prefer it was in stock.

British computer scientist Professor Yorick Wilks died on 14 April 2023 at the age of 83. source

Book 5

Artificial Intelligence - From Machine Learning to Superintelligence and The Singularity

Richard Urwin 2024

1

Amazon £7.99

What is artificial intelligence?

What problems does it solve?

Should we fear its potential?

In this highly accessible guide to the subject, Richard Urwin explains how AI came about and how it has developed over the years through the construction of ever more sophisticated computer programs.

From primitive calculators and early robotics to stock market analytics and ChatGPT, readers can explore the history and far-reaching capabilities of this dynamic field and its potentially frightening possibilities.

-------------------------------------------------------------

2 EBay £12.01 cheapest

3 WHSMITH

Also

Mastering AI - A Survival Guide to our Superpowered Future £10.11

Format: Paperback / softback

336 pages

We stand on the threshold of a new age ? one where content of all kinds, even software itself, will be conjured, seemingly from thin air, with simple conversation.

In a culture fraught with misinformation, Mastering AI pierces through the thicket of exaggerated claims, explaining how we arrived at this moment and mapping the likely long-term impacts on business, economics, culture and society this potent technology will have.

This book will serve as a guide to those dangers ? as well as highlighting the technology?s transformative potential ? and will pinpoint concrete steps that should be taken to regulate generative AI.

No idea what purpose the ??? serve.

Am azon £7.99