Fenwick McKelvey finished reading AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan
AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
From two of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI--and how to defend …
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Fenwick McKelvey finished reading Last Words by Paul Kockelman
Paul Kockelman: Last Words (Paperback, 2024, Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC)
Last Words by Paul Kockelman
A critical exegesis of large language models, like ChatGPT, and recent advances in artificial intelligence.
If speech has long …
Fenwick McKelvey finished reading Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders …
Fenwick McKelvey finished reading Number Go Up by Zeke Faux
Zeke Faux: Number Go Up (Paperback, 2023, Orion Publishing Group, Limited)
Number Go Up by Zeke Faux
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it; and TV ads …
Fenwick McKelvey rated When We Cease to Understand the World: 5 stars
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, Adrian Nathan West
A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining.
…Fenwick McKelvey finished reading When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, Adrian Nathan West
A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining.
…Fenwick McKelvey finished reading The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut
The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, …
Fenwick McKelvey finished reading The Upstairs Delicatessen by Dwight Garner
Fenwick McKelvey finished reading The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global …
Fenwick McKelvey finished reading One Man's Terrorist by Daniel Finn
Fenwick McKelvey rated Sonny Boy: 3 stars
Fenwick McKelvey finished reading Sonny Boy by Al Pacino
Fenwick McKelvey finished reading Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in …
Fenwick McKelvey wants to read More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
This “wild and utterly engaging narrative” (Melanie Mitchell) shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death, building …
Fenwick McKelvey finished reading Empire of AI by Karen Hao
Empire of AI by Karen Hao
When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good …