The Art of Using AI

A practical handbook on artificial intelligence by Sandro Asatiani and Karl Stocker, written in close collaboration with AI.

The book grew out of the AI courses Sandro developed for two universities in Tbilisi. Fifteen chapters lead from how a machine “thinks” to prompt engineering, personal assistants, business and teaching, each ending with a creative challenge for the reader.

Between the chapters, Karl Stocker distilled the pessimistic views on AI into short sentences, and Sandro illustrated them. The title is a play on words: Artificial – Art, from the Latin ars — skill, craft, work of art.

184 pages, 2025. In English, German and Georgian.
English edition · German edition

Cover of The Art of Using AI
Spread: ‘The term Artificial Intelligence as a misleading concept’
Illustration: a head with an eye and a mask
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 4: How a Machine “Thinks”
Chapter 5: Simplifying Complex Tasks
Chapter 7: Prompt Engineering
Spread: ‘The illusion of predictability’, with a funnel of garbage
Illustration: a figure with many arms
Illustration: cats and their fragments
Spread: ‘Ethical responsibility in the use of AI’, with an eye in a cage
Illustration: ‘Machina ex Deus’
Illustration: a machine with a screen for a face
Illustration: two figures, one hiding the other’s face
Spread: ‘The existential risks of artificial intelligence’
Illustration: a figure at a desk
Illustration: two figures in conversation
Back cover