*Generative Deep Learning: Drawing Pictures, Creating Stories and Music, and Playing Games* (by David Foster, translated by Koichi Matsuda and Chie Konuma, O’Reilly Japan, 2020) is, to the best of my knowledge, the earliest technical book on generative AI. Published in 2020 (the original was published in 2019), it predates the emergence of terms like “Generative AI” and “Generative AI.” While it is structured around technologies that may seem nostalgic (?)—such as LSTMs and GANs—it still...
