Book: Yuval Noah Harari's "Nexus"

My tenth book of the year was Yuval Noah Harari's "Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI".  This book was not what I expected.  It ended up being a mix of interesting and irritating.

As a person with an electrical and computer engineering background, I have certain expectations when I hear the words Information Networks.  This book expanded the definition to include religion, politics, and social networks.  This is not a bad thing, as it expanded my view of networks and how they influence information and people.

The irritating thing about this book is the author's ideas on Artificial Intelligence (AI).  You would think, by reading this book, that AI is already equal to human intelligence.  Anyone who uses the current LLM AI soon discovers it is far from being intelligent.  The author almost treats it as some unknowable God.   It is not.

I gave this book four stars out of five on Goodreads.  I gave the book the benefit of the doubt because it did expand my views on networks, even when the AI adoration became a bit much.  I seem to like this author as this is the third book of his that I've read (see the others here).