YOU ARE THE UPGRADE, AUGMENTED NATURAL INTELLIGENCE AS THE ONLY WAY FORWARD

Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 books about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.

MAKING SOUP

A preface for the curious, the confused, and the computationally overwhelmed

“Ik kan er geen soep van koken.” (Dutch idiom: “I can’t make soup from this” — in other words, “This makes no sense to me.”)

If you came here looking for definitive answers about AI, I have bad news: this is not the book for you.

But if you’re here to wander through wild ideas, unexpected metaphors, and more questions than conclusions — welcome. You’ve just found a book that tries to make soup from hundreds of others. Not a tidy recipe. More like a strange, spicy, idea-stirring stew.

The Truth Is: I Read All the Books, and I’m Still Confused.

I’ve read dozens of books about AI — and I’m none the wiser in the binary, black-and-white sense. If anything, I’m moreoverwhelmed, more amazed…