This text was originally written in Brazilian Portuguese
During this year, I was engaged in many personal actions, and also renewing my reading list to deepen my knowledge in artificial intelligence. This translated into these books I've read ion 2024.
From the image above you can see some of the upcoming books 👀 - which I hope to continue reading in the coming years.
Following an order of impact, I can say that some of this year's books left a big impression on me, regardless of the genre, and I would like more people to have the pleasure of reading them all:
- On Earth Were Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong - Letters from a son to his mother in an intense and moving book, recalling the life of a family cut through by the difficulties of a new country, personal acceptance and survival. Masterpiece!
- The Nine Titans of AI - Amy Webb - An important and urgent discussion for the world, which is heading towards a future with perhaps no return. Artificial Intelligence is the future, but it is up to us (governments, public entities, communities and companies) to decide whether it will be apocalyptic or Solar Punk. I recommend it.
- Alchemy - The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life - Rory Sutherland - Amazing book about behavioral psychology and consumption, and how apparently everything you were taught about rationalization doesn't work in reality. I highly recommend it!
- Genesis Human Experience in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Luke Soon - the worst book about AI and the future I've ever read. It deserves this horrible mention - I don't recommend it
- AI Snake Oil - Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor - A great detailed catalog, with a compelling narrative to understand what works and what doesn't in artificial intelligence. I recommend it
- Algorithms of Mass Destruction - Cathy O'Neil and Rafael Abraham - great book to learn more about the impact that our role as technology has on the world, and how we are being influenced, manipulated and dominated by the false utopia of technological innovation as the savior of the world. I recommend it.
- Becoming Black - Neusa Santos Souza . An important book in the search for the racialization of black people from a Brazilian perspective, and about the way in which the understanding of being a black person is constructed. I recommend it.
- Save the Fire - Itamar Vieira Junior - a punch in the stomach, winner of the Jabuti Prize this year. A breath of beauty in a world of tragedies. It was a good challenge. I recommend it.
- Rule of the Robots - Martin Ford - along the same lines, a vision of a future dominated by algorithms and machines that make decisions for us - with a more positive bias. This is not a science fiction book. It is happening now, and you are already being influenced by it.
- Unmasking AI - Joy Buolamwini - Bibliographic and technical at the same time, written by one of the most influential people in artificial intelligence today. Algorithmic racism and the impact of building systems that encode exclusion and oppression for their users. I recommend it
- Algorithmic Racism - TarcÃzio Silva - great insight into bias and computation, which brings a serious and well-founded discussion of what exists today in the world of technology, written by the great Brazilian researcher Tarcizio Silva . I recommend it.
- The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow - What would you do if you knew you had only a few months to live? Book based on the last lecture by Professor Randy Pauch, one of the pioneers of virtual reality and world computing. I recommend it
- Sunvault - Stories of SolarPunk and Eco-speculation - A book of short stories following the subgenre called Solar Punk : an alternative vision of the cyberpunk world, with several themes related to ecology, climate apocalypse, genetic evolution and space exploration. For science fiction fans, I recommend it.
- What is strategy - Silvio Meira - a book by the master bringing the ontological and constructive meaning of what strategy is, and how strategy fits into the reality of today's world. The book's format is quite curious, but it is worth reading, since its size is more like a mini catalog.
- Abolish Silicon Valley - Wendy Liu - A book about the negative impact of the model that fuels Silicon Valley, and what can be done about it.
A year of good books, and average books. Here's to another year of study.
At the moment I'm still reading 3 books ( the year isn't over! ), the first two of which have been taking up most of my morning reading time:
- The Question Concerning Technology in China An Essay in Cosmotechnics - a dense philosophy book that provides a metaphysical analysis of modern technology and our vision of a world that disconnects the tool (technology) from its ontological reality. It's incredible to be able to learn a little about Chinese philosophical thought and its perception of the world beyond our Eurocentric bias. I recommend it.
- Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes - A novel about drugs that enhance intelligence. No opinion yet.
And you? Which books of the year left their mark on you?!
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