{"id":9831,"date":"2019-02-28T09:52:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T09:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=9831"},"modified":"2019-01-30T13:00:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T13:00:57","slug":"9831","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2019\/02\/28\/9831\/","title":{"rendered":"An AI reading list \u2014 from Practical Primers to Sci-Fi Short Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2019\/01\/2019-01-29_1653.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9832\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2019\/01\/2019-01-29_1653-300x119.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2019\/01\/2019-01-29_1653-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2019\/01\/2019-01-29_1653-768x304.png 768w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2019\/01\/2019-01-29_1653-1024x405.png 1024w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2019\/01\/2019-01-29_1653.png 1354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<p id=\"dBGxTj\">Experts are already building a future world brimming with artificial intelligence, but here in the present most of us are still trying to figure out what AI even\u00a0<em>is<\/em>. This is a technology that will influence many aspects of our lives, from jobs to entertainment to health care, but that also engages with fundamental questions about what it means to be human. Questions like, \u201cwhat is the nature of creativity?\u201d and \u201chow do we define consciousness?\u201d Posing the question \u201chow can I understand AI?\u201d is nearly as daunting as asking \u201cwhat is the meaning of life?\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mDhkiq\">But as with that tricky life question, a sense of overawing complexity doesn\u2019t mean we shouldn\u2019t\u00a0<em>try<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"WgXHYe\">In order to help,\u00a0<em>The Verge<\/em>\u00a0has assembled a reading list: a brief but diverse compendium of books, short stories, and blogs, all chosen by leading figures in the AI world to help you better understand artificial intelligence. It\u2019s an eclectic selection that ranges from practical primers to Golden Age sci-fi, and while reading everything listed below won\u2019t get you a job at Google (though it certainly couldn\u2019t hurt), it\u00a0<em>will<\/em>\u00a0give you much-needed context for this confusing and exciting time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/1\/29\/18200585\/understand-ai-artificial-intelligence-reading-list-books-scifi\">READ MORE HERE &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts are already building a future world brimming with artificial intelligence, but here in the present most of us are still trying to figure out what AI even\u00a0is. This is a technology that will influence many aspects of our lives, from jobs to entertainment to health care, but that also engages with fundamental questions about&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2019\/02\/28\/9831\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about An AI reading list \u2014 from Practical Primers to Sci-Fi Short Stories<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":9832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9850,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions\/9850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}