These are the 12 best books to get up to speed on the hot new world of generative AI, according to experts

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Generative AI is a budding yet explosive field. Here's a list of books to get started learning about it.

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A former Google researcher behind a seminal AI paper describes how the company lost a top chatbot visionary

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Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, the cofounders of Character.ai.

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Sundar Pichai says ethicists and philosophers need to be involved in the development of AI to make sure it is moral, and doesn't do things like lie

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I've been building popular tech products like Tome since I became my family's breadwinner at 15 years old. I've learned you never know how people are going to use your creation.

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Keith Peiris is the cofounder of the buzzy multimodal storytelling tool, Tome.

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ChatGPT needs to 'drink' a water bottle's worth of fresh water for every 20 to 50 questions you ask, researchers say

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ChatGPT is estimated to consume a standard 16.9 oz bottle of water for every 20 to 50 questions and answers.

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Amazon announces 'Bedrock' AI platform to take on OpenAI

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Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy.

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This is what happened when 25 AI avatars were let loose in a virtual town

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A screenshot from the study "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior," which observed AI avatars in a virtual town.

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Elon Musk's AI ambitions for Twitter show that some of the people calling for the tech to 'pause' seem to be acting out of their own self-interest

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Elon Musk recently called for a 'pause' to AI development while society considered the ramifications. But Insider reports that Twitter, owned by Musk, is spending millions to get in on the generative AI boom.

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Here's why people shouldn't freak out yet about losing their jobs to AI automation

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Economics writer Noah Smith talked about why we should freak out—yet— about AI automating our jobs.

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A tech CEO who's rolling out AI across his company says it will give workers 'superpowers' because it's 'crazy powerful'

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Job van der Voort is the CEO of Remote.

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