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The Shortest History of AI

Six ideas to understand artificial intelligence today

Book • 2025

Author

Toby Walsh

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Mentioned in 2 episodes

His latest of five books on the topic includes six ideas to understand Artificial Intelligence today.

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Is AI our modern-day Frankenstein? Jeanette Winterson and Toby Walsh

Mentioned by Alice Loxton as a shortest history book coming out in paperback in July.

Spectator Out Loud: James Heale, Angus Colwell, Alice Loxton, Lloyd Evans, Richard Bratby, Christopher Howse and Catriona Olding

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Anna Goldsworthy

as the author of a book on the history of music.

Anna Goldsworthy: Kairos

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Toby Walsh

, whose work was used without permission to train AI models.

AI's "hidden labour" and the move toward a linkless internet

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Richard McGregor

as a virtuosic take in about 300 pages of all Chinese history.

After Xi: How Past CCP Successions Can Teach Us What Happens Next

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Sandy Ryza

as a book providing a different perspective on the British Empire in India.

Lessons in Data Engineering: Scaling, AI, and Open Source with Sandy Ryza

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Andrew Keen

as an upcoming book that will be released in the spring of 2025.

Episode 2285: Toby Walsh on the revolutionary promise and peril of AI in 2025

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Natasha Mitchell

as one of the twelve books written by

Linda Jaivin

Mao and Stalin — did they lead the way for tyrannical leaders like Trump?

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Andrew Keen

as a book that will be released in April 2025.

Episode 2289: Gary Marcus on how Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is, in the long run, inevitable

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Natasha Mitchell

Andrew Ford

's latest book, which attempts the impossible task of summarizing the history of music.

From vulture bone flutes to ‘organised sound’— Andrew Ford's short history of music

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