AI Resources
Explore our curated collection of books, papers, and other resources for AI enthusiasts and professionals
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UX for AI: A Framework for Designing AI-Driven Products
Greg Nudelman
May 2025
Unlock the future of design with UX for AI―your indispensable guide to not only surviving but thriving in a world powered by artificial intelligence. Whether you're a seasoned UX designer or a budding design student, this book offers a lifeline for navigating the new normal, ensuring you stay relevant, valuable, and indispensable to your organization. Inside the book: - Hands-on exercises: Build your confidence and skills with practice UX design tasks like Digital Twin and Value Matrix, which you can immediately apply to your own AI projects. - Common AI patterns and best practices: Explore design strategies for LLMs (Large Language Models), search engines, copilots, and more. - Proven user research strategies: Learn how to uncover user needs and behaviors in this brave new world of AI-powered design. - Real-world case studies: See how simple, practical UX approaches have prevented multimillion-dollar failures and unlocked unprecedented value.
Foundations of Agentic AI for Retail: Concepts, Technologies, and Architectures for Autonomous Retail Systems
Fatih Nayebi
May 2025
Foundations of Agentic AI for Retail is more than just a book—it’s your ultimate playbook for thriving in a rapidly evolving retail landscape. Written by a leading retail AI pioneer, this authoritative guide uncovers a powerful new paradigm of intelligent systems that don’t just process data, but actively think, adapt, and learn in real time. Inside, you’ll discover how Agentic AI is already reshaping everything from supply chain operations and inventory management to omnichannel personalization and customer engagement. Drawing upon in-depth frameworks, real code examples, and hands-on case studies, this book provides a clear roadmap for designing, deploying, and orchestrating autonomous systems that deliver tangible business results. Whether you’re a retail executive aiming to future-proof your strategy, a tech professional eager to implement next-generation solutions, or an AI enthusiast curious about the next frontier of machine intelligence, Foundations of Agentic AI for Retail shows you how to reimagine retail operations, elevate the customer experience, implement with confidence, and master the multi-agent future.
How To Think About AI: A Guide For The Perplexed
Richard Susskind
May 2025
Revealing the unfolding story of Artificial Intelligence, Richard Susskind presents a short non-technical guide that challenges us to think differently about AI. Susskind brings AI out of computing laboratories, big tech companies, and start-ups - and into everyday life. He explores the history of AI and possible scenarios for its future, balancing the benefits and threats of artificial intelligence as the defining challenge of our age.
Building Agentic AI Systems: Create intelligent, autonomous AI agents that can reason, plan, and adapt
Anjanava Biswas, Wrick Talukdar
April 2025
Gain unparalleled insights into the future of AI autonomy with this comprehensive guide to designing and deploying autonomous AI agents that leverage generative AI (GenAI) to plan, reason, and act. Written by industry-leading AI architects and recognized experts shaping global AI standards and building real-world enterprise AI solutions, it explores the fundamentals of agentic systems, detailing how AI agents operate independently, make decisions, and leverage tools to accomplish complex tasks. Starting with the foundations of GenAI and agentic architectures, you’ll explore decision-making frameworks, self-improvement mechanisms, and adaptability. The book covers advanced design techniques, such as multi-step planning, tool integration, and the coordinator, worker, and delegator approach for scalable AI agents. Beyond design, it addresses critical aspects of trust, safety, and ethics, ensuring AI systems align with human values and operate transparently. Real-world applications illustrate how agentic AI transforms industries such as automation, finance, and healthcare. With deep insights into AI frameworks, prompt engineering, and multi-agent collaboration, this book equips you to build next-generation adaptive, scalable AI agents that go beyond simple task execution and act with minimal human intervention.
Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2025
Stanford University, Institute for Human-Centered AI
April 2025
The Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2025 offers a comprehensive, data-driven analysis of the global state of artificial intelligence. Covering technical advancements, responsible AI, economic impact, policy changes, public perception, and sustainability, this report serves as a foundational resource for researchers, policymakers, industry leaders, and the public. Compiled by the Stanford HAI Institute, the 2025 edition includes new benchmarks, model performance comparisons, and fresh insights into AI’s role in science, education, governance, and the environment.
INGRAIN AI: Strategy through Execution - The Blueprint to Scale an AI-first Culture
John W Munsell
March 2025
AI is the most transformative technology in history, yet it's creating massive anxiety and frustration for CEOs, business leaders, and consultants everywhere. This book offers a step-by-step blueprint to help leaders, managers, and professionals integrate AI seamlessly across all departments, creating a workforce that embraces AI instead of fearing it.
AI FOR BEGINNERS 2025: A HANDS-ON GUIDE TO AI AUTOMATION: PACKED WITH PRACTICAL EXERCISES, REAL-WORLD EXAMPLES, AND STEP-BY-STEP STRATEGIES TO BOOST PRODUCTIVITY AND SCALE YOUR BUSINESS
Spencer V. Webster
March 2025
If you're looking for a hands-on guide packed with step-by-step exercises, real-world examples, and advanced strategies to leverage AI effectively, this book is for you! Learn how to integrate AI into your daily operations, from email management to customer support. Master ChatGPT, Jasper AI, and other tools to write blogs, social media posts, and sales emails effortlessly. Each chapter includes hands-on exercises and expert-level AI prompts to help you apply what you learn immediately.
Multi-LLM Agent Collaborative Intelligence: The Path to Artificial General Intelligence
Edward Y Chang
March 2025
This book explores a multi-agent collaborative framework implementing advances in AI through LLM agents. It focuses on six core advancements in reasoning, governance, and memory systems that enhance collaborative intelligence. By integrating multimodal sensory inputs and cognitive processing, it aims to reshape our understanding of artificial intelligence and its future potential.
Prompt Engineering
Lee Boonstra
February 2025
This whitepaper by Lee Boonstra explores prompt engineering techniques for optimizing large language model (LLM) interactions. It covers prompting methods including zero-shot, few-shot, chain-of-thought, self-consistency, ReAct, and Tree-of-Thoughts. The book provides hands-on examples using Google€™s Gemini model in Vertex AI, delving into prompt configurations, debugging, multimodal prompts, and best practices for structured inputs and outputs.
Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future
Reid Hoffman, Greg Beato
January 2025
Tech visionary and co-founder of Manas AI Reid Hoffman shares his unique insider’s perspective on an AI-powered future, making the case for its potential to unlock a world of possibilities. Superagency challenges conventional fears, inviting us to view the future through a lens of opportunity, rather than fear. It’s a call to action – to embrace AI with excitement and actively shape a world where human ingenuity and the power of AI combine to create something extraordinary.
AI Made Simple for Beginners: Discover Faster Results to Increase Productivity with Smart Problem-Solving Techniques & Hands-On Exercises to Effectively Minimize Ethical Dilemmas
Dawn O'Neal
November 2024
This book offers a straightforward introduction to artificial intelligence, simplifying complex concepts into easy-to-understand language while providing practical, real-world applications and ethical considerations.
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Defence
Mariarosaria Taddeo
November 2024
With the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence across all sectors, each day we are faced with urgent questions around how this technology can be used safely and effectively-and nowhere are these questions more complex than in the defence sector. Mariarosaria Taddeo provides a conceptual yet applicable and systematic analysis of the issues that arise with the use of AI in defence, broadening the conversation in an underdiscussed area and offering practical recommendations for policy-makers and practitioners. The book provides a comprehensive view of the ethical challenges around AI and explores real-world examples of how AI can be employed, including intelligence analysis, cyber warfare, and autonomous weapon systems. Centering her argument around the autonomy and learning capabilities of AI technologies, Taddeo creates a coherent ethical framework based in AI ethics and Just War theory to answer the question how can AI in defence be used for good and support policy-makers and practitioners to make informed choices when developing an ethical governance of AI in defence.
Using Artificial Intelligence Absolute Beginner’s Guide
Michael Miller
November 2024
Using Artificial Intelligence Absolute Beginner’s Guide will have you getting the most of popular AI tools in no time! Learn how AI can make everyday life easier. Get tips for using AI to write, gather information, get advice, and more. Discover how to use AI to generate images that are realistic and fantastical! Examine the risks and rewards of artificial intelligence. Find step-by-step instructions for today’s most popular AI tools, including ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Meta AI, Microsoft Copilot, and Midjourney.
All Hands on Tech: The AI-Powered Citizen Revolution
Thomas H. Davenport, Ian Barkin, Chase Davenport
October 2024
This pivotal book offers a comprehensive look into the role of citizen developers—business domain experts who are driving IT-enabled innovation using technology previously reserved for professional technologists. Through case studies, the authors demonstrate how emerging technology empowers individuals and adds value to organizations. They outline a transformative approach to citizen development that enhances companies' innovative capacity while controlling risk. This book serves as both a guide and inspiration for leaders eager to embrace citizen development.
Gemini for Google Workspace: Prompting Guide 101
Google Workspace Team
October 2024
A quick-start handbook designed to help users write effective prompts using Gemini for Google Workspace. The guide introduces foundational prompt design principles, real-world use cases, and tips across various job roles including admin support, marketing, HR, sales, and more. It helps users learn how to maximize productivity and creativity through AI-powered tools in Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Meet, and Slides.
Mastering AI Prompt Engineering: The Ultimate Guide for ChatGPT Users
Adriano Damiao
September 2024
What if you could unlock the full potential of AI with just a few carefully chosen words? This book teaches how to maximize AI effectiveness, enhance creativity, and solve problems effectively by mastering the art of crafting prompts. It includes advanced prompting techniques and practical applications across various domains.
Adversarial AI Attacks, Mitigations, and Defense Strategies: A Cybersecurity Professional's Guide to AI Attacks, Threat Modeling, and Securing AI with MLSecOps
John Sotiropoulos
July 2024
Adversarial attacks trick AI systems with malicious data, creating new security risks by exploiting how AI learns. This challenges cybersecurity as it forces us to defend against a whole new kind of threat. This book demystifies adversarial attacks and equips you with the skills to secure AI technologies, moving beyond research hype or business-as-usual activities. This strategy-based book is a comprehensive guide to AI security, presenting you with a structured approach with practical examples to identify and counter adversarial attacks.
How to Teach AI: Weaving Strategies and Activities into Any Content Area
Rachelle Dené Poth
July 2024
Get practical tools and strategies for teaching AI across the K-12 curriculum with this accessible guide. As AI continues to transform our world, educators have a responsibility to stay current with the changes, and ensure that students have the necessary knowledge and skills to succeed in the future. Written by an educator who is currently teaching on this topic, How to Teach AI shares practical strategies and tools based on what good practice looks like in the classroom right now. Readers will build confidence in integrating AI into their curriculum so they can effectively prepare students for their careers.
Artificial Intelligence and Librarianship: Notes for Teaching
Martin Fricke
July 2024
A comprehensive teaching guide that explores the application of artificial intelligence in the field of librarianship. This third edition includes significant updates such as a new chapter on evaluation and the future, expanded material on large language models and multimodal systems, and critical analysis of AI-driven tools like chatbots, recommendation engines, classification, and cataloging systems. It also covers ethical issues, bias, intellectual freedom, and the evolving role of librarians in a digital age.
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
Ethan Mollick
April 2024
From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI. Co-Intelligence urges us to engage with AI as co-worker, co-teacher, and coach, using real-time examples to illustrate its impact on business and education. The book reveals the promise and power of this new era of AI.
Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2024
Stanford University, Institute for Human-Centered AI
April 2024
The Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2024 offers a comprehensive and data-rich overview of global trends in AI. Covering technical advancements, responsible AI practices, economic and policy shifts, education, public opinion, and environmental impact, this 500+ page report presents insights backed by data from academia, industry, and governments. Developed by researchers from Stanford, it serves as a key reference for policymakers, researchers, business leaders, and the general public.
Dancing with Qubits: From qubits to algorithms, embark on the quantum computing journey shaping our future
Robert S. Sutor
March 2024
Dancing with Qubits, Second Edition, is a comprehensive quantum computing textbook that starts with an overview of why quantum computing is so different from classical computing and describes several industry use cases where it can have a major impact. A full description of classical computing and the mathematical underpinnings of quantum computing follows, helping you better understand concepts such as superposition, entanglement, and interference. The book goes over circuits and algorithms, both basic and sophisticated, as well as a survey of the physics and engineering ideas behind how quantum computing hardware is built. Finally, it looks to the future and gives guidance on understanding how further developments may affect you.
Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know
Jerry Kaplan
February 2024
AI expert Jerry Kaplan explains how generative AI will revolutionize virtually every human activity. Highly recommended. Advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) have created a new class of computer systems that exhibit astonishing proficiency on a wide variety of tasks with superhuman performance, producing novel text, images, music, and software by analyzing enormous collections of digitized information. Soon, these systems will provide expert medical care; offer legal advice; draft documents; write computer programs; tutor our children; and generate music and art. These advances will accelerate progress in science, art, and human knowledge, but they will also bring new dangers. Have we finally discovered the holy grail of AI - machines that match or exceed human intelligence? Which industries and professions will thrive, and which will wither? What risks and dangers will it pose? How can we ensure that these systems respect our ethical principles? Will the benefits be broadly distributed or accrue to a lucky few? How will GAI alter our political systems and international conflicts? Are we merely a stepping stone to a new form of non-biological life, or are we just getting better at building useful gadgets? Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know equips readers with the knowledge to answer these pressing questions.
Understanding Large Language Models: Learning Their Underlying Concepts and Technologies
Thimira Amaratunga
November 2023
This book will teach you the underlying concepts of large language models (LLMs), as well as the technologies associated with them. The book starts with an introduction to the rise of conversational AIs such as ChatGPT, and how they are related to the broader spectrum of large language models. From there, you will learn about natural language processing (NLP), its core concepts, and how it has led to the rise of LLMs. Next, you will gain insight into transformers and how their characteristics, such as self-attention, enhance the capabilities of language modeling, along with the unique capabilities of LLMs. The book concludes with an exploration of the architectures of various LLMs and the opportunities presented by their ever-increasing capabilities—as well as the dangers of their misuse. After completing this book, you will have a thorough understanding of LLMs and will be ready to take your first steps in implementing them into your own projects.
AI and the Future of Education: Teaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Priten Shah
September 2023
Clear away the fog surrounding AI in education―and regain your peace of mind. Among teachers, there is a cloud of rumors, confusion, and fear surrounding the rise of artificial intelligence. This book is a timely response to this general state of panic, showing you that AI is a tool to leverage, not a threat to teaching and learning.
The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
Mustafa Suleyman
September 2023
An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI.
50 Strategies for Integrating AI into the Classroom
Donnie Piercey
August 2023
Learn how to harness the power of AI in your classroom! This professional resource includes 50 easy-to-implement strategies for using AI technology as a tool for teaching. This book saves teachers valuable time with activities that boost literacy, content knowledge, and student engagement using AI tools. Written by a teacher who specializes in using technology in his own classroom, this professional book introduces artificial intelligence and the many ways it can help educators.
Artificial Intelligence for Everyone: A Gentle Guide to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Emmanuel K. Okunola
April 2023
In this comprehensive guide, you'll discover fundamental concepts, real-world applications, step-by-step tutorials, ethical considerations, and future trends in AI technology. Accessible and engaging, this book is perfect for beginners, tech enthusiasts, and professionals looking to enhance their understanding of AI.
80 Ways to Use ChatGPT in the Classroom: Using AI to Enhance Teaching and Learning
Stan Skrabut
February 2023
In the book, '80 Ways to Use ChatGPT in the Classroom: Using AI to Enhance Teaching and Learning,' Dr. Stan Skrabut, an instructional technologist and designer, explores these topics and much more. He presents different ways to incorporate chatGPT into the classroom, including preparation for classes, providing instructional assistance, creating assessments, developing study aids, and using chatGPT for computer programming. The book also covers how students can use chatGPT for writing assistance, research, and personalized learning. Stan provides practical examples and suggestions to help educators fully utilize chatGPT's capabilities while addressing potential concerns and criticisms. The book aims to show that AI can enhance teaching and learning and encourages educators to embrace this technology in the classroom.
Artificial Intelligence Technology
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
January 2023
An official textbook by Huawei ICT Academy, this open-access book provides a comprehensive overview of AI technologies, including machine learning, deep learning, AI frameworks like TensorFlow and MindSpore, AI processors, Huawei Atlas computing solutions, smart applications, and industrial deployment strategies. It emphasizes both theoretical principles and practical implementation.
Human-Centered AI
Ben Shneiderman
February 2022
The remarkable progress in algorithms for machine and deep learning have opened the doors to new opportunities, and some dark possibilities. However, a bright future awaits those who build on their working methods by including HCAI strategies of design and testing. As many technology companies and thought leaders have argued, the goal is not to replace people, but to empower them by making design choices that give humans control over technology. In Human-Centered AI, Professor Ben Shneiderman offers an optimistic realist's guide to how artificial intelligence can be used to augment and enhance humans' lives. This project bridges the gap between ethical considerations and practical realities to offer a road map for successful, reliable systems. Digital cameras, communications services, and navigation apps are just the beginning. Shneiderman shows how future applications will support health and wellness, improve education, accelerate business, and connect people in reliable, safe, and trustworthy ways that respect human values, rights, justice, and dignity.
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Global Edition
Peter Norvig, Stuart Russell
May 2021
The long-anticipated revision of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach explores the full breadth and depth of the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The 4th Edition brings readers up to date on the latest technologies, presents concepts in a more unified manner, and offers new or expanded coverage of machine learning, deep learning, transfer learning, multi-agent systems, robotics, natural language processing, causality, probabilistic programming, privacy, fairness, and safe AI.
Grokking Artificial Intelligence Algorithms
Rishal Hurbans
September 2020
Understand and apply the core algorithms of deep learning and artificial intelligence in this friendly illustrated guide including exercises and examples.
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig
May 2020
The long-anticipated revision of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach explores the full breadth and depth of the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The 4th Edition brings readers up to date on the latest technologies, presents concepts in a more unified manner, and offers new or expanded coverage of machine learning, deep learning, transfer learning, multiagent systems, robotics, natural language processing, causality, probabilistic programming, privacy, fairness, and safe AI.
AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams
Joanna Zylinska
January 2020
A provocative and accessible exploration of AI-generated art and its cultural, aesthetic, and political implications. Zylinska critiques techno-optimistic narratives and instead repositions AI-driven art within a broader media ecology, asking what it means to create and experience art in the age of machine vision and automation. The book tackles questions of creativity, authorship, labour, and ethics while engaging with both historical and contemporary works in the field.
Hands-On Artificial Intelligence on Amazon Web Services
Subhashini Tripuraneni, Charles Song
October 2019
From data wrangling through to translating text, you can accomplish this and more with the artificial intelligence and machine learning services available on AWS. With this book, you'll work through hands-on exercises and learn to use these services to solve real-world problems. You'll even design, develop, monitor, and maintain machine and deep learning models on AWS.
The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book
Andriy Burkov
January 2019
A concise yet comprehensive guide to machine learning, covering essential topics such as supervised and unsupervised learning, neural networks, ensemble methods, and practical techniques like feature engineering and model evaluation. Designed for both beginners and experienced practitioners, the book balances theoretical foundations with real-world applications.
Reinforcement Learning, Second Edition: An Introduction
Richard S. Sutton, Andrew G. Barto
November 2018
The significantly expanded and updated new edition of a widely used text on reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence. Reinforcement learning is a computational approach to learning whereby an agent tries to maximize the total amount of reward it receives while interacting with a complex, uncertain environment. This edition has been significantly expanded and updated, presenting new topics and updating coverage of other topics.
The AI Advantage: How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work
Thomas H. Davenport
October 2018
In The AI Advantage, Thomas Davenport offers a guide to using artificial intelligence in business. He describes what technologies are available and how companies can use them for business benefits and competitive advantage. He cuts through the hype of the AI craze to explain how businesses can put artificial intelligence to work now, in the real world.
Accelerating Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care: Results from a State of the Nation Survey
The AHSN Network, NHS England, and the Department of Health and Social Care
October 2018
This report presents the results of a national survey conducted across the UK in early 2018, exploring the real-world development, implementation, and impact of AI technologies in the health and care sector. It includes analysis of over 130 self-reported solutions, emerging use cases, case studies, and a forward-looking strategy for establishing ethical, scalable, and evidence-based AI adoption in the NHS.
A People’s Guide to AI
Mimi Onuoha & Mother Cyborg (Diana Nucera)
August 2018
A community-focused, educational guide to artificial intelligence that explores how AI works, where it appears in everyday life, and how it affects marginalized communities. The book includes accessible activities, speculative storytelling, and questions around equity, algorithmic bias, and the future of work.
Artificial Intelligence and Privacy
Datatilsynet (The Norwegian Data Protection Authority)
January 2018
A report exploring how artificial intelligence impacts privacy and data protection under GDPR, highlighting challenges such as algorithmic bias, purpose limitation, data minimization, transparency, and supervisory oversight.
Deep Learning
Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville
November 2016
An introduction to a broad range of topics in deep learning, covering mathematical and conceptual background, deep learning techniques used in industry, and research perspectives.
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
May 2016
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life.