The Best AI and Machine Learning Books

(according to 400+ really successful people)

These are the best books about AI and Machine Learning.

Sources include interviews, biographies, podcast transcripts, public online lists, and more.

The Singularity Is Near
Ray Kurzweil
6 recommenders
"Many major problems, like education and disease, will be totally transformed by this in our lifetimes." - Brian Armstrong
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Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
6 recommenders
"Worth reading [this book]. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes." - Elon Musk
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Life 3.0
Max Tegmark
4 recommenders
Barack Obama's favorite books of 2018 list.
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Our Final Invention
James Barrat
3 recommenders
"Worth reading." - Elon Musk
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Permutation City
Greg Egan
2 recommenders
"[The author]'s very dry but full of great ideas." - Naval Ravikant
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Human Compatible
Stuart Russell
1 recommender
"Worth reading." - Elon Musk
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
Peter Norvig
1 recommender
"In the aggregate [with other programming books] hugely shaped me." - Patrick Collison

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