Attack Surface - Cory Doctorow
Non-Fiction:
Engineering General Intelligence Vol 2 - Ben Goertzel
Honorable Mention - Fiction
Daemon - Daniel Suarez
Freedom - Daniel Suarez
Billy Summers - Stephen King
Elsewhere - Dean Koontz
Honorable Mention - Non-Fiction:
We See It All - Jon Fasman
Integrating Rules and Connectionism for Robust Commonsense Reasoning - Ron Sun
Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks - James A. Anderson
The Soar Cognitive Architecture - John Laird
Similar to a written version of Star Trek.
Set in a different universe where physics works as we currently understand it to, but with beings that have had billions of years to perfect all the technology you can have in it. Much cooler than he lazy rich people in space of the culture series.
About the One Laptop Per Child computers
Fiction I enjoyed reading:
- Sourdough/24hr library
- Nick Webb legacy fleet series
- Long way to a small angry planet