AI Self-Awareness: "Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World" by Christopher Steiner
(Original Review, 2012-08-04)
There has been a long tradition of defining intelligence to be whatever machines can't do at the time. The recent book "Automate This: How Algorithms came to rule our world" by Christopher Steiner gives a good overview of many of the fields in which computers have achieved or surpassed human performance, whether in game play [2018 EDIT: (Chess (Deep Blue), Jeopardy (Watson))], medical prescriptions (diagnosis and fulfillment) or even music (judging potential, composing).
If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.
