AI boom Concepts

On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp

by Paul Graham · 8 Sep 1993 · 423pp · 21,637 words

Lisp, and so it began to be spoken of as an AI language. This line was taken up and repeated so often during the brief AI boom in the 1980s that it became almost an institution. Fortunately, word has begun to spread that AI is not what Lisp is all about. Recent

The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (And Who Benefits)

by Maximilian Kasy · 15 Jan 2025 · 209pp · 63,332 words

necessarily in the short run. In the short run, there is a limited supply of experts with sufficient training to satisfy the demands of the AI boom. Correspondingly, AI specialists command high wages and some decision-making powers, at least for the moment. One consequence of this limited supply of experts is

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climate change, big reductions of fossil fuel consumption are necessary. To achieve this, the supply of alternative, renewable energy sources needs to be expanded. The AI boom certainly does not help with the goal of reduced energy consumption. From the perspective of corporate actors, energy is an important part of the cost

The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth

by Robin Hanson · 31 Mar 2016 · 589pp · 147,053 words

school, headed to Silicon Valley, and got a job doing AI at Lockheed. I stayed in AI for 9 years, and was part of the AI “boom” then. We’ve seen similar booms of excitement and anxiety regarding rapid automation progress every few decades for centuries, and we are seeing another such

Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought A. I. To Google, Facebook, and the World

by Cade Metz · 15 Mar 2021 · 414pp · 109,622 words

Krizhevsky. As Hinton said: “He hasn’t got enough Trump in him.” Sitting at his desk inside Chauffeur, Krizhevsky was at the heart of this AI boom, but he didn’t see his role as all that important, and he didn’t see any of it as artificial intelligence. It was deep

More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

by Adam Becker · 14 Jun 2025 · 381pp · 119,533 words

a summer.” Seventy years later, we still don’t have any computer program that can do all the things on their list. There have been AI booms—like the one that exploded into public consciousness in 2022, powered by large language models (LLMs)—and, to date, they have all been followed by

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

by Howard Rheingold · 24 Dec 2011

same time, many of the early AI researchers were leaving for private industry to get involved in the techno-bubble of the time, the commercial AI boom and eventual bust. One holdout at MIT, deprived of his beloved programming environment, resistant to the commercialization of what he considered public property by AT

Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI

by John Brockman · 19 Feb 2019 · 339pp · 94,769 words

self-driving car must determine their operators’ intentions, but the former has just two options to choose from, whereas the latter has many more. The AI-boom phases have started with promising examples in limited domains; the bust phases came with the failure of those demonstrations to handle the complexity of less

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With AI

by Ethan Mollick · 2 Apr 2024 · 189pp · 58,076 words

technological advances, such as artificial neural networks that mimicked the human brain, followed by collapse as AI could not deliver on expected goals. The latest AI boom started in the 2010s with the promise of using machine learning techniques for data analysis and prediction. Many of these applications used a technique called

The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip

by Stephen Witt · 8 Apr 2025 · 260pp · 82,629 words

applications—Midjourney, ChatGPT, Copilot, all of it—were developed on Nvidia machines. It is this unprecedented increase in computing power that has made the modern AI boom possible. With a near-monopoly on the hardware, Huang is arguably the most powerful person in AI. Certainly, he’s made more money from it

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bruised, and farm owners were experimenting with AI robots to pick the fruit they shipped. One analysis predicted that meeting the needs of the generative AI boom might require doubling US nuclear plant capacity in under ten years. Even conservative estimates projected a 20 percent increase in required total demand. There was

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before now served as the basis for a new scientific field. Bengio was a pure academic with little interest in commerce, but he watched the AI boom with a kind of fatherly pride. Like many researchers in the field, though, Bengio sometimes imagined a world where AI grew too powerful. For most

Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War

by Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff · 8 Jul 2024 · 272pp · 103,638 words

field of cybersecurity alone, there are nearly half a million open positions that companies can’t fill owing to the lack of candidates. The new AI boom is producing a similar gap. The U.S. could hire ten thousand top AI scientists from around the world and we’d still need more