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Book · 2024 · Computers

AI

Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable

by Roman V. Yampolskiy · Brought up by 2 people on 2 podcasts

AI by Roman V. Yampolskiy has been mentioned in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts (1 episode recommends it and 1 episode discusses it), through . Most frequently brought up by Joe Rogan (1 episode) and Kevin Systrom (1 episode) on Invest Like the Best (1 episode) and The Joe Rogan Experience (1 episode).

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AI unexplainable, unpredictable, and uncontrollable. It's available now.
Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2025 Listen at 2:12:41

The best things said about it

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Discussed
I bought a book back in the day and I think it was called AI and Python or something. It was an O'Reilly book, but it was back in the day and it had an entire chapter on neural nets, but it was like how to create them from scratch.
Kevin Systrom Invest Like the Best · Nov 2019

Why people recommend it

AI: Unexplained, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable is a non-fiction book by Roman V. Yampolskiy that examines the severe safety risks and future challenges associated with artificial intelligence development. On an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, host Joe Rogan welcomed the author and discussed the themes of the book, directly quoting its title and confirming for his massive audience that the work was officially available for purchase. During their conversation, Rogan also asked the author whether writing and publishing a book on such a rapidly moving technological topic gave him a persistent feeling of absolute futility given how quickly the field evolves. In a different context on an entirely separate podcast, Kevin Systrom appeared on Invest Like the Best to discuss product development and recalled purchasing a completely different early programming guide about AI and Python back in the day to illustrate how primitive machine-learning resources used to be, noting that the older O'Reilly book featured a chapter dedicated entirely to building neural networks entirely from scratch.

Every mention

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Joe Rogan AI unexplainable, unpredictable, and uncontrollable. It's available now. 1
Discussed
“AI unexplainable, unpredictable, and uncontrollable. Do you have this feeling when you're writing a book like this and you're publishing it that of futility?”
Recommended
“AI unexplainable, unpredictable, and uncontrollable. It's available now.”
Kevin Systrom I bought a book back in the day and I think it was called AI and Python or something. It was an O'Reilly bo… 1
Discussed
“I bought a book back in the day and I think it was called AI and Python or something. It was an O'Reilly book, but it was back in the day and it had an entire chapter on neural nets, but it was like how to create them from scratch.”
Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
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“and AI: Unexplained, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable.”
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“The following is a conversation with Roman Yampolskiy, an AI safety and security researcher and author of a new book titled "AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable".”
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“So one of the chapters in my new book is about unpredictability.”

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