Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers

It’s a good book in general, but it’s also a shameless plug for the author’s company. Conceptually it’s interesting and probably a good way to broaden your perspective of what the future of AI could be. It’s fairly high level, easy to digest, and does a nice job of presenting one possible vision of the future. However, everything is written in advocacy of the software the author has created. It makes sense to be an advocate for yourself, but it comes across a little heavy handed at times. I would still recommend reading this book, but the self promotion is the reason it’s only 4/5 stars.

Well-researched, thorough, and clearly written, this book will help you understand the transformational nature and ethical aspects of AI and automated ecosystems and provides actionable outlines on how to integrate conversational AI into your organization.This book shows that the future of AI goes beyond just automating current systems and operations, to show how automated ecosystems can help organizations find and understand user needs better than what is currently achievable and design user experiences and initiatives far beyond our current capabilities.As conversational AI becomes more and more ingrained in our processes, this book will give you a deeper understanding of how these systems will impact our businesses and lay out strategies that organizations can use to push into the future. Highly recommended.

The title, cover, endorsements, and publisher (Wiley) might lead you to believe that this blog-to-book is worth purchasing. But it was mostly unbearable. Light on useful information, highly speculative, myopic, and shamelessly self-promotional are better descriptors. You can't read "Prediction Machines" or "Power and Prediction" and this right after because the drop in utility and quality is too polarizing to take this "resource" seriously. If AI wasn't so hot right now, this book would never be a WSJ best seller. Popularity alone is driving demand for this rushed 234-page marketing fluff piece.

Not only does this book give you insight as to what is coming when it comes to digital automation, it provides practical guidance on how to take advantage of conversational AI now. It perfectly balances the challenging task of describing a complex topic while also being incredibly approachable.the book has 3 parts, each are a quick read :Part 1 - builds your mental model of how to think about digital automationPart 2 - contextualizes that mental model in to a practical planPart 3 - provides best practices when implementing the planIf you are working towards automating any part of your company, this should be standard reading (for you and your team)

For anyone trying to launch themselves into the world of conversational ai or looking to set their company apart from their competitors, Age of the Invisible Machines is an absolute must-read. Robb Wilson and Josh Tyson lay out the guiding principles for these complex concepts in a clear and distinct manner. This book ranges in topics, covering the basics of conversational design to the future of the nascent industry and its ethical dilemmas. Written by leaders of the industry, I would recommend anyone to use this product as a starting point and practical guide to this up-and-coming technology.

This book provides great insight when it comes to successfully automating and deploying intelligent AI technologies. As you read more into each chapter of the book, you discover additional details that get you thinking about the automated things already around us and what the future holds. I enjoyed the Key Takeaways section at the end of each chapter. This section confirmed that the Author's ideas and intent were where my mind was taken as I read through each chapter. I found the entire reading interesting and insightful while being easy to understand and digest at the same time.

The beginning chapters were somewhat enjoyable because the author hypothesized on some tangible changes to our lives when it comes to AI but everything discussed was surface level. I appreciated that the author even made some bold claims - such as APIs being a thing of the past in the near term - but offered very little explanation other than because “AI”As other readers have stated, the whole thing ends up being a one-sided, bias explanation of why AI interaction is the future and how their company is exactly the solution for businesses to rely on. In true consulting fashion, all topics/roads lead back to the solutions their company offers. They even included individual QR codes at the end of each chapter to go to their website, which are no doubt intended as data gathering and measuring what topics are hooking people into learning more. Clever, but it really shows the true intent of the book. Unless you’re a CTO in the midst of implementing AI/ML to your customer service systems, don’t bother with this book.

Sets the vision for a leap forward that is about to storm every business and most certainly, tech people. Must read for leading tech teams into new age