AI

Artificial Intelligence 《人工智能》 Stuart Russell The book divides artificial intelligence into two traditions — thinking, built on logic and search, and acting, built on probability and statistics… Artificial Intelligence Classic Index 96

Superintelligence 《超级智能》 Nick Bostrom Writing before superintelligence existed, Bostrom systematically asked how much leverage humanity would retain once an intelligence far beyond our… Artificial Intelligence Classic Index 94

Deep Learning 《深度学习》 Ian Goodfellow A textbook by three founders of deep learning that begins with linear algebra, probability, and numerical computation and builds up to convolutional… Artificial Intelligence Classic Index 93

Reinforcement Learning 《强化学习导论》 Richard Sutton This book distills “learning how to act” into a single problem: an agent improves its policy from a reward signal through repeated interaction with… Artificial Intelligence Classic Index 90

Human Compatible 《AI 新生》 Stuart Russell Russell proposes a solution that looks like a concession but is in fact demanding: do not give machines explicit objectives; make them uncertain… Artificial Intelligence Classic Index 90

Life 3.0 《生命 3.0》 Max Tegmark Tegmark organizes a very broad question — from near-term automation and unemployment to a cosmos-scale intelligence — with a simple frame: life 1.0… Artificial Intelligence Classic Index 88

The Alignment Problem 《人机对齐》 Brian Christian Christian splits alignment into three layers: the objectives a model learns may not be the ones we intend, the biases it inherits from data may… Artificial Intelligence Classic Index 87

AI Superpowers 《AI·未来》 Kai-Fu Lee Lee contrasts two Chinas — one of ubiquitous mobile payment and data scale, one of Silicon Valley's research tradition. He argues that China's edge… Artificial Intelligence Classic Index 86

The Master Algorithm 《终极算法》 Pedro Domingos Domingos sorts machine learning into five schools — symbolists, connectionists, evolutionaries, Bayesians, and analogizers — and conjectures a… Artificial Intelligence Classic Index 85

The Age of AI 《人工智能时代与人类未来》 Henry Kissinger Kissinger, Schmidt, and Huttenlocher argue that AI is not merely an efficiency tool but a new epistemology: its answers often cannot be fully… Artificial Intelligence Classic Index 84

AI 2041 《AI 2041》 Kai-Fu Lee Lee and science-fiction writer Chen Qiufan pair ten short stories with ten technical commentaries, each explaining why the technology in the story… Artificial Intelligence Classic Index 82

Genius Makers 《天才制造者》 Cade Metz Metz reports on how deep learning moved from academic margin to industrial center around 2012: a competition, a handful of companies, a few… Artificial Intelligence Classic Index 80

Nexus 《智人之上》 Yuval Noah Harari How information networks evolved, and how they enable digital surveillance. Society & Civilization AZM's list

Society & Civilization 2015 Homo Deus Yuval Noah Harari Homo Deus 《未来简史》 Yuval Noah Harari Techno-humanism, immortality projects, and a society split by class. Society & Civilization AZM's list

Society & Civilization 2022 Relationships 5.0 Elyakim Kislev Relationships 5.0 《关系5.0》 Elyakim Kislev Robots, AI, and the coming revolution in human-machine intimacy. Society & Civilization AZM's list

The Society of Mind 《心智社会》 Marvin Minsky Intelligence emerges from a society of mindless agents Psychology & Cognitive Science Daily Pick

Artificial Intelligence 1948 Cybernetics Norbert Wiener Cybernetics 《控制论》 Norbert Wiener Life and machine under one framework of feedback: how cybernetics became a common root of AI and cognitive science Artificial Intelligence Daily Pick

Philosophy 1953 Philosophical Investigations Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations 《哲学研究》 Ludwig Wittgenstein Meaning lives in use, not in the head: how Wittgenstein's language games dissolved philosophy's most stubborn illusions Philosophy Daily Pick