The Age of Spiritual Machines

Great read (listen), amazing how many of his predictions are spot on 20 years later. Fairly creepy in fact, while listening to this as an audiobook driving - using Android Auto, which is connecting to so much internet knowledge in real-time, extending my capabilites and knowledge as a human. Things are impossible to predict exactly, real timing of things have too many variables, but most of what he's talking about is happening as predicted, and thus all the futuristic concepts seems very feasible.

I listened to this because I had heard that it was a foundational work in the understanding of AI. I absolutely agree, now that I've heard it. It may be decades-old, but if you wish to zoom out and see how AI came to be and where we are likely to go with it as a species, this is required reading. It's all about context. And this book provides it in buckets