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I loved the movie and own all three volumes of the book. To purchase one of the volumes about 20 years ago, I had to pay a significant amount of money for it fr

I loved the movie and own all three volumes of the book. To purchase one of the volumes about 20 years ago, I had to pay a significant amount of money for it from a dealer. I have been working in the field of AI for 40 years, and that is probably why I found the three Colossus books so compelling. After the wild ride we have had the last few years in exponential LLM improvements, it is time to re-read the books.

technothrasher 3y ago
"I had to pay a significant amount of money for it from a dealer." I bought them all in about 1997 or so, and paid very little, like under $10 total for all three paperbacks. I guess I bought at the right time! I haven't read them in ages now. I should go back and re-read them. I remember them being enjoyable, and the ideas were interesting, but the writing was pretty amateurish. I've got an original movie poster framed and hanging at home next to my "Silent Running" poster.