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Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xv, 268 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Whether in medicine, money, or love, technologies powered by forms of artificial intelligence are playing an increasingly prominent role in our lives. As we cede more decisions to thinking machines, we face new questions about staying safe, keeping a job and having a say over the direction of our lives. The answers to those questions might depend on your race, gender, age, behavior, or nationality."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
ix, 254 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming human society fundamentally and profoundly. Three of our most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore how A.I. could affect our relationship with knowledge, impact our worldviews, and change society and politics as profoundly as the ideas of the Enlightenment.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Describes the quest to find the Master Algorithm, which will take machine learning to the next level, allowing computers to learn how to solve not just particular problems but any problem,"--Novelist.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
vii, 214 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Amir Husain, a brilliant inventor and computer scientist argues that we are on the cusp of writing our next, and greatest, creation myth. It is the dawn of a new form of intellectual diversity, one that we need to embrace in order to advance the state of the art in many critical fields, including security, resource management, finance, and energy. In The Sentient Machine, he addresses broad existential questions surrounding the coming of AI: Why...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The promise and perils of AI; from fears about work and privacy to rivalry between the US and China. A new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jobs and our world, and allow the emergence of the surveillance society.
Author
Publisher
CRC Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"AI by Design introduces the reader to Artificial Intelligence and its importance to our future. Exploring behavioural psychology, economics, and real-life and historical examples, Campbell predicts five future scenarios with AI, orientated around the "Singularity" - the moment when AI exceeds human capabilities, presenting perhaps the biggest challenge to our existence. We are at a tipping point in history and must act now to stop an extinction-level...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xii, 476 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems-and the movement to fix them. Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us-and to make decisions onour behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases. Algorithms decide bail and parole-and appear to assess black and...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"What jobs should be automated? How should our legal systems handle autonomous systems? How likely is the emergence of suprahuman intelligence? A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business--and there is no person better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark. What has A.I. brought us? Where will it lead us? The story of A.I. is the story of intelligence--of life processes as they evolve from bacteria (1.0) to humans...
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xi, 275 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"A fascinating look at Artificial Intelligence, from its humble Cold War beginnings to the dazzling future that is just around the corner. When most of us think about Artificial Intelligence, our minds go straight to cyborgs, robots, and sci-fi thrillers where machines take over the world. But the truth is that Artificial Intelligence is already among us. It exists in our smartphones, fitness trackers, and refrigerators that tell us when the milk...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny, and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love from New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson. "Talky, smart, anarchic and quite sexy," wrote Dwight Garner in the New York Times about Jeanette Winterson's last novel, Frankissstein, her first foray into the subject of AI. In 12 Bytes, Winterson's first nonfiction since her bestselling...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
256 pages
Description
"The machines are here. After decades of sci-fi doomsaying and marketing hype, advanced A.I. and automation technologies have leapt out of research labs and Silicon Valley engineering departments and into the center of our lives. Robots once primarily threatened blue-collar manufacturing jobs, but today's machines are being trained to do the work of lawyers, doctors, investment bankers, and other white-collar jobs previously considered safe from automation's...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Description
"In this non-fiction book for teens, readers are guided through the development of this world-changing technology, exploring how AI has touched every corner of our world, including education, healthcare, work, politics, war, international relations, and even romance. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how artificial intelligence got here, how to make the best use of it, and how we can expect it to transform our lives"--
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"If you have a smartphone, you have AI in your pocket. It's everywhere online. And it has already changed how doctors diagnose disease as well as how you interact with friends or read the news. But In Rule of the Robots, Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur Martin Ford argues that true disruption is yet to come, as AI ceases to be a tool applied to specific problems, and becomes a utility: the industrial foundation upon which practically all activity-personal,...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Formats
Description
"A stark and urgent warning on the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologies poses to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance-from a cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind. Imagine a world in which anyone with a $20,000 desktop DNA synthesizer could develop and unleash a deadly virus. Imagine an undetectable deepfake video of a U.S. president making a racial slur racing across the internet...
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