'Ask Anything' is minimum viable knowledge base for intelligent conversations about AI.

This book is about developing a light-to-medium depth understanding of AI in relation to the below themes.

How is the AI we use made?

What goes into the making of LLMs and gen AI tools? What’s the impact of not knowing how these are made? Can I trust LLMs? How much?

How do we use AI?

Exploring how we co-work with AI and critical issues emerging from this relationship.

How does using AI affect the world?

Developing a high level understanding of the impact AI usage, governance, and legislation, briefly examining the healthcare and legal industry context.

How does using AI change us?

How AI shapes our culture, humour and tastes, perception and cognition.

‘Ask Anything’ provides general audiences with a broad basis of research to discuss how AI systems work and how humans work with LLMs and agents.

It gives the reader a high level understanding of key issues in AI governance and legislation, examining the healthcare and legal industries as key example contexts. Finally, this book asks how AI shapes human cognition, perception and culture.

This short book uses contemporary research to help people develop a conscious relationship with the new ‘layer’ of AI embedded across our personal lives, the economy, and political context.

Future and past projects on cultural patterns can be found at www.unifiedmemory.com.