smarties-press

smarties-press

AI for Smarties (Smarties)

Bertrand Meyer

The most important technology of our time — decoded
Millions use AI every day. Few understand why it works.

✓ Why large language models work

✓ Why learning replaced rules

✓ What AI means for software engineering, education, and society


The path to Modern-AI

How the logic-based techniques of Old-AI failed and gave way to neural networks, backpropagation, gradient descent, and other techniques behind LLMs and other AI successes — explained simply and clearly.


How to use AI effectively

Modern-AI systems are impressive but imperfect. To use them effectively you must understand how they work. This books enables you to stay on top of AI and steer your career in an AI-rich world.


The risks and allure of AI

Dreams, Doubts and Dread — is AI the path to humanity’s future, or a threat to the world? Go beyond the hype and vacuous claims; learn what AI really is and get it to work for you


Full Details: https://ai-for-smarties.com

  • The book is available from https://ai-for-smarties.com (€29.95, currently discounted by €5, plus a special discount of €3 if you use the coupon code DEVTALKCOM on checkout, so €21.95) It’s an e-book.

Where Next?

Popular Ai topics Top

New
New
ManningBooks
Build an AI Agent (From Scratch) is a step-by-step guide to creating a working AI agent, starting with the bare essentials and growing yo...
New
ManningBooks
In Build a DeepSeek Model (From Scratch) you’ll build your own DeepSeek clone from the ground up. First, you’ll quickly review LLM fundam...
New
ManningBooks
AI agent technology is changing fast! This totally revised Second Edition of AI Agents in Action by Micheal Lanham guides you through the...
New
ManningBooks
After ChatGPT used RLHF to become production-ready, this foundational technique exploded in popularity. In The RLHF Book, AI expert Natha...
New
pragdave
Build a prototype in a weekend or a full product in a month or two. Untangle legacy systems, improve tests and documentation, and tackle ...
New
ManningBooks
Dr Luca Belli, co-founder and former research lead for Twitter’s Machine Learning Ethics, Transparency and Accountability team, has been ...
New
ManningBooks
Today’s AI models demand a lot of memory, compute, and server horsepower–which quickly translates into cost. Quantization and Fast Infere...
New
ManningBooks
AI agents are showing up everywhere—and most of them are being built by trial and error. Agent Design Patterns distills the experience of...
New

Other popular topics Top

PragmaticBookshelf
Stop developing web apps with yesterday’s tools. Today, developers are increasingly adopting Clojure as a web-development platform. See f...
New
New
AstonJ
Do the test and post your score :nerd_face: :keyboard: If possible, please add info such as the keyboard you’re using, the layout (Qw...
New
DevotionGeo
The V Programming Language Simple language for building maintainable programs V is already mentioned couple of times in the forum, but I...
New
AstonJ
Curious what kind of results others are getting, I think actually prefer the 7B model to the 32B model, not only is it faster but the qua...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Escape callback hell and ship fast, clean code that reads as smoothly as it runs. Squash bugs and stamp out memory leaks with an intuitiv...
New
mindriot
Ok, well here are some thoughts and opinions on some of the ergonomic keyboards I have, I guess like mini review of each that I use enoug...
New
pragdave
Build robust LLM-powered apps, chatbots, and agents while mastering AI engineering principles that will help you outlast the tools and th...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Write elegant Ruby code—not just correct, but idiomatic. Go beyond the vocabulary and syntax and learn to express yourself with eloquence...
New
xiji2646-netizen
Woke up to this today: Claude Code’s complete source code exposed via npm source map. Not a snippet. All 512,000 lines. 1,900 TypeScript ...
New