What to Think About Machines That Think
Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence

That´s the only book of this series I wouldn´t recommend. Simply because it´s far too redundant. After about a third of the book, I began to skim and skip and could hardly find more than about a dozen new ideas. As a comparison: On average I get a lot of impulses, ideas and concepts out of this grea......more

It's a 5 star read with great narration, but I highly recommend getting the ebook to study, too. It took me most of the year to get through it. That's not because it is a bad book. It's just packed with almost 200 short essays, each giving me too much to think about. I could only listen to one, mayb......more

This book holds 200 essays, and most of them are crap. The second Brockman curated 'literary symposium' that I've read that I didn't like. I've read somewhere around seven, and most of them have been brilliant. The problem is, this question largely elicited self-congratulatory moping and starry-eyed......more

Aside from the occasional person who really knows what (s)he's talking about, this collection of essays reads like a bunch of laypeople mouthing off about things they know very little about. Disappointing, compared to past Edge question responses.......more

A few gems among many essays that seem to have little original or useful in them. I've read several of these Edge essay collections. This is the worst. It may be that this interesting topic is too complex to say anything useful in a page or two which is the normal length in this book. A few are much......more