The AI PocketbookThe AI Pocketbook by Emmanuel Maggiori
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

If you are a newbie wondering what GenAI is all about, how ChatGPTs and Gemini's work under the hood, how DallE generates images, this is the book for you. While many are overwhelmed by the Capabilities of LLMs and are anxiety ridden listening to some experts in the field (Mostly in their 70s) who behave like Doomsday Prophets, this book clears the wheat from the chaff. This is a good introduction to how LLMs work, how CNNs and RNNs work. The book introduces us to the revolutionary epochs in AI revolution, by talking about Deep Learning and the famous paper "Attention is all you need" that introduced the transformer architecture that is used ubiquitously now in LLMS.

This book also deals with some of the shortcomings of LLMs like hallucinations, why self driving cars are still a distant dream. It also gives a list of now popular tools.

The author gives his take on how to future proof your career against AI with some very valuable suggestions.

In the end, the book takes a philosophical turn by comparing Biological Intelligence with AI. It was a pleasure reading this book and highly enlightening.

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