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Little Book of Data: Understanding the Powerful Analytics that Drive
Data is not about number crunching. It's about ideas. And when used properly (read: ethically), it is the problem solver of our time. Yet many savvy people seem to be...
The Anti-Catastrophe League: The pioneers and visionaries on a quest
'Consummate and thorough' - The Times 'Darkly entertaining' - The Spectator A superbly written work of narrative non-fiction by an exciting new talent, The Anti-Catastrophe League is a brilliant study...
Machines Behaving Badly: The Morality of AI
Can we build moral machines? Toby Walsh, AI expert, examines the ethical issues we face in a future dominated by artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is an essential part of our...
AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own
A humanist manifesto for the age of AI. Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's power grows, so does the need to figure out...
Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects: A Computational
Language resources and computational models are becoming increasingly important for the study of language variation. A main challenge of this interdisciplinary field is that linguistics researchers may not be familiar...
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case Against Superintelligent
The founder of the field of AI risk explains why superintelligent AI is a global suicide bomb and we must halt development immediately AI is the greatest threat to our...
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
A pioneer of artificial intelligence shows how the study of causality revolutionized science and the world 'Correlation does not imply causation.' This mantra was invoked by scientists for decades in...
AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In
A veteran Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shadows the top thinkers in the field of Artificial Intelligence, introducing the breakthroughs and developments that will change the way we live and work. Artificial...
Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a
The world's leading educational technologist makes an inspirational case for how we should use AI to support pupils and teachers The generative AI revolution has come to education. Salman Khan,...
The Atomic Human: Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI
A world expert explains the hottest topic on the planet, bringing a fresh perspective to the AI era- how artificial intelligence helps us understand what makes us human A vital...
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary
A mind-bending exploration of non-human intelligence, and how it holds the keys to our continuing life on earth What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to...
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and
From two of TIME' s 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products Confused...
Do Plants Know Math?: Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals, from
A breathtakingly illustrated look at botanical spirals and the scientists who puzzled over them. Charles Darwin was driven to distraction by plant spirals, growing so exasperated that he once begged...
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity
In May 1997, the world watched as Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player in the world, was defeated for the first time by the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. It was...
The Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future
The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider- the only book you need to read on this subject. *An Economist, Financial Times, Guardian, Prospect and Sunday Times Book...
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
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Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of a new era in artificial...
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning
A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next We live in a world made by machines; their development...
Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination
How do we live ethical lives alongside others? A fascinating exploration of our moral universe We have always lived with ethically significant others, whether they are the pets we keep,...
MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy
What are the implications for finance and investing in an era of generative AI, and how can you better understand these developments to protect and grow your wealth? In November...
The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
The legendary oracle of technological change explains how AI will transform our species beyond recognition within two decades By the end of this decade, AI will exceed human levels of...
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning
A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next We live in a world made by machines; their development...
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and
A former Wall Street data scientist sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and threaten to rip apart our social fabric We live in the...
Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control
Humans dream of super-intelligent machines. But what happens if we actually succeed? Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, according to the world's pre-eminent AI...
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business - and there's no one better to explore that future than Max Tegmark We stand at the beginning of a new...
Always On: Hope and Fear in the Social Smartphone Era
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We Know It When We See It: What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us
"Spotting a face in a crowd is so easy, you take it for granted. But how you do it is one of science's great mysteries. Vision is involved in nearly...
Artificial Intelligence in Byte-sized Chunks
Artificial intelligence is headline news with the launch of the latest ChatGPT and Google Bard. But when did we start making computers mimic the human mind? And what is the...
The Loop: How AI Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight
Artificial intelligence is about to amplify the most primitive version of who we are, and spit it back at us for entertainment and profit. That's the warning from award-winning technology...
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human
'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype'If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we'll...
Do Robots Make Love?: From AI to Immortality - Understanding Transhumanism in 12 Questions
Author: Laurent Alexandre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Should we enhance the human condition with technology? Does anyone really want to live for a thousand years? Could AI end...
Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI
Author: Urs Gasser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 When we make decisions, our thinking is informed by societal norms, 'guardrails' that guide our decisions, like the laws and rules...
Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities
Author: David B. Auerbach Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 How the autonomous digital forces jolting our lives - as uncontrollable as the weather and plate tectonics - are transforming...