I proudly present:
The co-writer on this blog site, Eef van Veen, has come out with his first book:

Arty – Musings with an AI

The cover:

Introduction:

Writer Eef and his friend Paul operate a modest online blog. They both supply content on whatever subject is deemed interesting enough to share with others. With two people with broad interests, their content spreads over many subjects. Over time – they have been doing this for several years now – each of them found a specific set of subjects that were explored deeper in order to learn more about them. Eef’s subjects have mostly been focused on mathematics and AI, and an impressive range of articles has been posted on each of these subjects.

This book focuses on Eef’s investigations on AI. His early articles were discussions with an early version of ChatGPT where it is quite clear that AI still has a long way to go. We now know that was exactly what it did: it progressed, and fast. His later articles on AI make it clear that this progress has been made, and the current version of ChatGPT – to name one – is far superior to the earlier versions. The same can be said about Eef’s published articles; they too evolve in order to keep up with the AI, but foremost they continue to challenge it.

In order to make these conversations easier, and perhaps even more personal, Eef nicknamed his AI counterpart early on as Arty, Arty the AI. And indeed, the progress in the AI over time is hard to miss, but also the way Arty engages in what could have been good discussions between friends, quite good friends in this case.

This book contains most of Eef’s content on AI as can be found on the blog today, but you’ll now find it conveniently compressed in a handy nowadays underestimated analog format: a printed book. For the sake of completeness, Paul took the liberty to add his editorial comments, as well as Eef’s response of them from our blog posts.

About author Eef van Veen:

Eef van Veen is a Dutch writer and blog content creator. He is a retired chemical- and software-engineer living in the country side in France with Wil, his wife of many years,

As a retiree, Eef finds the time to write in depth about a few subjects that fascinate him, AI interaction being one of them. Other than writing, he spends his time with Wil, either traveling, or together maintaining their garden and protecting flowerbeds from the ever growing gras taking over.

Order your own copy of Eef’s new book here:

https://www.amazon.nl/s?k=eef+van+veen+arty