Ask HN: Book recommendations for ChatGPT shaped future?

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Have you read The Singularity is Near?

Lord of light. A similar popular book but written in Chinese is "赛博英雄传" if you can read Chinese or maybe ask GPT-4 to translate for you.

The children of time series by Tchaikovsky — fictional exploration of questions about sentience and intelligence — https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/24/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...

Accelerando by Charles Stross

The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem, covers all four (and more).

Scythe by Neal Shusterman

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28954189-scythe

Resisting AI by Dan McQuillan: https://academic.oup.com/policy-press-scholarship-online/boo...

I thought Max Tegmark’s Life 3.0 was interesting. But with all this future prediction stuff, best to take it with a grain of salt.

“Manna” by Marshall Brain: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel)

Written in 2003 (!)

Describes a very realistic scenario of what can start happening in the near future, as people look for ways GPT-4 can save them money.