Posts tagged "book review"
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Book Review: Made in Our Image by Stephen Driscoll
Read moreArtificial intelligence is bringing changes quickly, and people have lots of opinions. It's not the easiest topic to get a handle on. If you're looking for an accessible book to help you see AI through a biblical lens, I recommend Made in Our Image by Stephen Driscoll.
There are several beneficial features of this book:
- It's biblical: Driscoll's primary concern is to help readers bring biblical principles to bear on AI.
- It's accessible: He doesn't presuppose a lot of technical knowledge, nor familiarity with other writing about the impact of technology on society. It's also not super-long (192 pages).
- It's reasonably timeless: Because his purpose is to apply biblical principle rather than describe the technology itself, what Driscoll says about AI should remain relevant for at least a few years (which is a very long time in the AI world).
- It's opinionated: he takes definite positions regarding some key questions about AI.
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Book Review: Telling a Better Story
Read moreI wrote this review some time ago. I didn't post it because I was intending to write more, but looking it over now I think it's complete enough to share.
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Book Review: Essentialism by Greg McKeown
Read moreIt is possible to read Greg McKeown’s 2014 book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less as a collection of techniques for time management. There is some promise to this approach, as McKeown has gathered together a number of astute observations and suggestions to help readers better manage their priorities. But overall I believe that anyone who truly wants to improve their productivity would do better to skip this book.
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Book Review: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
Read moreEvery once in a while I've looked for a book that presents a cogent and intellectually honest case for finding meaning in life, but without reference to God. My various casual searches were thwarted by the fact that the most prominent books that are tagged as “atheist” tend towards polemic. Since most real people are not polemicists, I judged such books unhelpful for understanding the views of people I might actually talk to. I’d given up looking.