AI winter
description: periods of reduced funding and interest in AI research
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What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence
by John Brockman · 5 Oct 2015 · 481pp · 125,946 words
can also be seen from the way in which media articles about artificial intelligence have changed in tone. If you hadn’t already noticed, the AI Winter is over and the AI Spring has begun. As with many trends, some people are a little too optimistic about the rate of progress, going
Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
by John Brockman · 19 Feb 2019 · 339pp · 94,769 words
quickly, and for sums that caught my attention, thus kick-starting my career as a literary agent. I never did meet Richard Feynman. THE LONG AI WINTERS This new career put me in close touch with most of the AI pioneers, and over the decades I rode with them on waves of
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
by Mark O'Connell · 28 Feb 2017 · 252pp · 79,452 words
on it together for a summer. This sort of hubris has been an intermittent characteristic of AI research, and has led to a series of “AI winters”—periods of drastically decreased funding following bursts of intense enthusiasm about the imminent solution to some or other problem which then turned out to be
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
by Jeff Hawkins · 15 Nov 2021 · 253pp · 84,238 words
inception in 1956, the field of artificial intelligence has gone through several cycles of enthusiasm followed by pessimism. AI scientists call these “AI summers” and “AI winters.” Each wave was based on a new technology that promised to put us on the path to creating intelligent machines, but ultimately these innovations fell
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industry faces is: Are we currently on a path to creating truly intelligent AGI machines, or will we once again get stuck and enter another AI winter? The current wave of AI has attracted thousands of researchers and billions of dollars of investment. Almost all these people and dollars are being applied
Successful Lisp - About
by Unknown · 304pp · 125,363 words
shipments, the Lisp world started changing. Unfortunately, most programmers never noticed; Lisp's fortune was tied to AI, which was undergoing a precipitous decline -- The AI Winter -- just as Lisp was coming of age. Some say this was bad luck for Lisp. I look at the resurgence of interest in other dynamic
MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them
by Nouriel Roubini · 17 Oct 2022 · 328pp · 96,678 words
to this lurking megathreat. Until very recently the burden of proof stymied believers in the transformative power of artificial intelligence, or AI. A so-called AI winter prevailed during the 1980s and 1990s, as progress was painfully slow and seemed to support skeptics who maintained that computers could never match, much less
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
by Mo Gawdat · 29 Sep 2021 · 259pp · 84,261 words
of code. The infinitesimal progress made over the next seventeen years, however, came to a halt in 1973, in what is known as the first AI winter, when the Middle Eastern oil crisis halted the funding of AI projects. In the 1980s, efforts to revive AI, mostly led by Japan, channelled investment
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hype and excitement surrounding it) until it was all halted again in 1987 – again, due to an economic crisis. This is known as the second AI winter. Sporadic attempts at AI followed the economic recovery, but it wasn’t until the turn of the millennium, when we stumbled upon the biggest breakthrough
When Computers Can Think: The Artificial Intelligence Singularity
by Anthony Berglas, William Black, Samantha Thalind, Max Scratchmann and Michelle Estes · 28 Feb 2015
problems. SHRDLU may have been interesting, but at the end of the day it was quite useless. The resulting period is referred to as the “AI Winter”. One of Lilienthal’s controlled flights, 1890’s Public expired Historically, the same problem was encountered by early aviation pioneers. In 1891 Otto Lilienthal started
Heart of the Machine: Our Future in a World of Artificial Emotional Intelligence
by Richard Yonck · 7 Mar 2017 · 360pp · 100,991 words
and under political pressure, much government funding was cut off, both in the United States and in Britain. This would become known as the first “AI winter,” a colloquialism that was used to denote those periods of political and corporate disillusionment that led to significant reductions in funding for AI projects. Subsequent
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The Age of AI: And Our Human Future
by Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher · 2 Nov 2021 · 194pp · 57,434 words
domains whose tasks could be achieved by encoding clear rules, from the late 1980s through the 1990s, the field entered a period referred to as “AI winter.” Applied to more dynamic tasks, AI proved to be brittle, yielding results that failed the Turing test—in other words, that did not achieve or
These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
by Christopher Summerfield · 11 Mar 2025 · 412pp · 122,298 words
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With AI
by Ethan Mollick · 2 Apr 2024 · 189pp · 58,076 words
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
by Meredith Broussard · 19 Apr 2018 · 245pp · 83,272 words
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
by Mustafa Suleyman · 4 Sep 2023 · 444pp · 117,770 words
The Deep Learning Revolution (The MIT Press)
by Terrence J. Sejnowski · 27 Sep 2018
The Economic Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism
by Calum Chace · 17 Jul 2016 · 477pp · 75,408 words
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson · 26 Jun 2017 · 472pp · 117,093 words
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
by Kevin Kelly · 6 Jun 2016 · 371pp · 108,317 words
The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
by Byron Reese · 23 Apr 2018 · 294pp · 96,661 words
Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
by Eric Topol · 1 Jan 2019 · 424pp · 114,905 words
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
by Stuart Russell · 7 Oct 2019 · 416pp · 112,268 words
Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence
by Jacob Turner · 29 Oct 2018 · 688pp · 147,571 words
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
by Stephen Witt · 8 Apr 2025 · 260pp · 82,629 words
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares · 15 Sep 2025 · 215pp · 64,699 words
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson · 15 May 2023 · 619pp · 177,548 words
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein · 6 Sep 2021
The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future
by Jeff Booth · 14 Jan 2020 · 180pp · 55,805 words
The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
by Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind · 24 Aug 2015 · 742pp · 137,937 words
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
by Kai-Fu Lee · 14 Sep 2018 · 307pp · 88,180 words
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
by James Barrat · 30 Sep 2013 · 294pp · 81,292 words
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
by Martin Ford · 4 May 2015 · 484pp · 104,873 words
A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
by Daniel Susskind · 14 Jan 2020 · 419pp · 109,241 words
Smart Machines: IBM's Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing (Columbia Business School Publishing)
by John E. Kelly Iii · 23 Sep 2013 · 118pp · 35,663 words
The Loop: How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back
by Jacob Ward · 25 Jan 2022 · 292pp · 94,660 words
The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age
by Roger Bootle · 4 Sep 2019 · 374pp · 111,284 words
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
by Nate Silver · 12 Aug 2024 · 848pp · 227,015 words
The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future
by Tom Chivers · 12 Jun 2019 · 289pp · 92,714 words
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
by Michael Bhaskar · 2 Nov 2021
Surviving AI: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence
by Calum Chace · 28 Jul 2015 · 144pp · 43,356 words
Thinking Machines: The Inside Story of Artificial Intelligence and Our Race to Build the Future
by Luke Dormehl · 10 Aug 2016 · 252pp · 74,167 words
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
by Karen Hao · 19 May 2025 · 660pp · 179,531 words
This Is for Everyone: The Captivating Memoir From the Inventor of the World Wide Web
by Tim Berners-Lee · 8 Sep 2025 · 347pp · 100,038 words
I, Warbot: The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict
by Kenneth Payne · 16 Jun 2021 · 339pp · 92,785 words
Succeeding With AI: How to Make AI Work for Your Business
by Veljko Krunic · 29 Mar 2020
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig · 14 Jul 2019 · 2,466pp · 668,761 words
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
by Amy Webb · 5 Mar 2019 · 340pp · 97,723 words
Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines
by Thomas H. Davenport and Julia Kirby · 23 May 2016 · 347pp · 97,721 words
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
by Nick Bostrom · 3 Jun 2014 · 574pp · 164,509 words
Pandora's Brain
by Calum Chace · 4 Feb 2014 · 345pp · 104,404 words
Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb · 16 Apr 2018 · 345pp · 75,660 words
Advances in Artificial General Intelligence: Concepts, Architectures and Algorithms: Proceedings of the Agi Workshop 2006
by Ben Goertzel and Pei Wang · 1 Jan 2007 · 303pp · 67,891 words
The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age
by Robert Wachter · 7 Apr 2015 · 309pp · 114,984 words
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
The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow's Technology Still Isn't Here
by Nicole Kobie · 3 Jul 2024 · 348pp · 119,358 words
Rage Inside the Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All
by Robert Elliott Smith · 26 Jun 2019 · 370pp · 107,983 words
Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne · 9 Sep 2019 · 482pp · 121,173 words
Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car
by Anthony M. Townsend · 15 Jun 2020 · 362pp · 97,288 words
Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything
by Stephen Baker · 17 Feb 2011 · 238pp · 77,730 words
Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
by Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson · 15 Jan 2018 · 523pp · 61,179 words
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
by Garry Kasparov · 1 May 2017 · 331pp · 104,366 words
Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead
by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman · 22 Sep 2016
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
by Ross Douthat · 25 Feb 2020 · 324pp · 80,217 words
Four Battlegrounds
by Paul Scharre · 18 Jan 2023
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
by Anil Ananthaswamy · 15 Jul 2024 · 416pp · 118,522 words
Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything
by Martin Ford · 13 Sep 2021 · 288pp · 86,995 words
Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning From It
by Brian Dumaine · 11 May 2020 · 411pp · 98,128 words
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
by Michio Kaku · 15 Mar 2011 · 523pp · 148,929 words
The Road to Conscious Machines
by Michael Wooldridge · 2 Nov 2018 · 346pp · 97,890 words
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
by Clive Thompson · 26 Mar 2019 · 499pp · 144,278 words
Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines and Wired Markets
by David J. Leinweber · 31 Dec 2008 · 402pp · 110,972 words
Artificial Whiteness
by Yarden Katz
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
by Melanie Mitchell · 14 Oct 2019 · 350pp · 98,077 words
Architects of Intelligence
by Martin Ford · 16 Nov 2018 · 586pp · 186,548 words
Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
by John Markoff · 24 Aug 2015 · 413pp · 119,587 words
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do
by Erik J. Larson · 5 Apr 2021
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
by Ray Kurzweil · 14 Jul 2005 · 761pp · 231,902 words
Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
by Xiaowei Wang · 12 Oct 2020 · 196pp · 61,981 words
Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought A. I. To Google, Facebook, and the World
by Cade Metz · 15 Mar 2021 · 414pp · 109,622 words
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
by James Bridle · 18 Jun 2018 · 301pp · 85,263 words
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by Walter Isaacson · 6 Oct 2014 · 720pp · 197,129 words
Practical Doomsday: A User's Guide to the End of the World
by Michal Zalewski · 11 Jan 2022 · 337pp · 96,666 words
The Man From the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann
by Ananyo Bhattacharya · 6 Oct 2021 · 476pp · 121,460 words