Nov 24, 2023, 06:26 AM IST

AI in 2023: Top 7 Technology Reads of The Year

Mukul Sharma

7. Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Start-up Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill

The journalistic work is incredibly engaging and equally significant. Hill investigates into secretive start-up Clearview AI and brings focus on ambiguity of Artificial Intelligence.

6. Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson

The book is an account of stunning disruption technology has brought about since humankind's move towards modernity. The authors also delve upon inequities in terms of access of technology and how countries can reap the benefits of technological advancements.

5. The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut

This is a work of fiction but has a portrayal of Artificial Intelligence's conception at the centre of the narrative. A heads up from this journalist at WION: The book is for those who imagine better than they can remember.  

4. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li

The unputdownable account of 'American Dream' is redescribed through the relevant lens of Artificial Intelligence. The book makes the case for keeping humanity at the focus of AI picture of our planet.

3. The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar

One of the most important technology reads of 2023, the book is a damning forecast of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order.

2. The Age of AI by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher

The profound transformational power of Artificial Intelligence has been vividly explained in this Wall Street Journal bestseller. The authors argue that AI is the most groundbreaking change humanity is chronicling at present after the age of enlightenment (1685-1815).

1. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

The 688-page book is unlike the previous Musk biography Isaacson penned several years ago. The easy-to-read and quick-to-understand book explores Musk's enterpreneurial superstardom and the way he has mastered social media to reach directly to the people.