Julian Vexley Audiobooks

Everything Julian Vexley writes sits under a single banner: The World of AI: Understanding Tomorrow, Today, a broad and still growing series of short guides to artificial intelligence. The purpose is easy to state. It takes the ideas that dominate technology headlines and explains them to people who have no intention of learning to code.

Little is published about the author beyond the work itself, which is not unusual for writers who arrive through independent publishing. What the books do reveal is a clear editorial method: one question per volume, a few hours of listening at most, no equations, and no assumption that the listener already knows what a model or a training set might be.

The tone throughout is curious rather than alarmed. Vexley seems as interested in how these systems reach a decision as in what they might eventually do to us, and the ethical volumes sit alongside the technical ones rather than displacing them.

The series is represented here by a cluster of compact listens, each built around a single question. The Basics of AI Algorithms, read by Mark Petersen, is the natural first step, since it explains what an algorithm actually is before anything else is asked of you. How AI Really Thinks, narrated by Michelle Peitz, follows on with the reasoning that happens inside the box.

From there, From Data to Decisions examines what these systems do with the information they are fed. The Unseen Burden, due to join the shelves, turns philosophical and asks whether creating a conscious machine could ever be morally defensible. Michael Bridges narrates both.

None of these titles has gathered listener ratings yet, so treat them as an invitation to form your own view. Have a look at the audiobooks below and start wherever your questions start.