The Human Computers

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Reducere. The New York Times best-selling author of Physics of the Impossible , Physics of the Future and Hyperspace tackles the most fascinating and complex...

Publisher: BookLife PublishingAuthor(s): Emilie DufresneNumber of pages: 24Collection: Trailblazing TeamsPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 224 x 22...

How developments in science and technology may enable the emergence of purely digital minds -- intelligent machines equal to or greater in power th...

Reducere. According to Rosalind Picard, if we want computers to be genuinely intelligent and to interact naturally with us, we must give computers the abilit...

Contributor(s): Author: Roger PenroseFor many decades, the proponents of artificial intelligence' have maintained that computers will soon be able ...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence comes a fascinating look at the remarkable capacity for intelli...

Reducere. A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making pr...

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AI is on the brink of a new dawn. And so are we... Telling the difference between humans and computers used to be easy. But artificial intelligence...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom award-winning author Lesa Cline-Ransome and acclaimed illustrator Ra l Col n comes the sensitive, informative, and inspiring pictur...

Reducere. Description"Do you believe that future thinking machines are likely within our lifetimes?" After reading this book, the emphatic answer is, "Yes. L...

Reducere. In the tradition of international bestsellers, Future Shock and Megatrends, Michael J. Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, brings The Mobile Wave, a grou...

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Reducere. AI With PythonSince the invention of computers or machines, their capability to perform various tasks has experienced an exponential growth. Humans...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe brain has always had a fundamental advantage over conventional computers: it can learn. However, a new generation of artificial inte...

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Reducere. Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, an...

In Story Machines, two pioneers of creative artificial intelligence explore the design and impact of AI story generators. The book covers three the...

Prize-winning science writer Philip Ball explores the diversity of thinking minds, from the variety of human minds to those of mammals, insects, co...

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Reducere. The idea that the digital age has revolutionized our day-to-day experience of the world is nothing new, and has been amply recognized by cultural h...

This enthralling book alerts us to nothing less than the existence of new varieties of life. Some of these species can move and eat, see, reproduce...

An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy.In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and...

Reducere. The human species is special because we contain general intelligence. Engineers believe they can build computerized artificial intelligent (AI) ver...

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Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the fo...

DescriptionEight hundred years ago, the Zhen Empire discovered a broken human colony ship drifting in the fringes of their space. With only a third...

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Reducere. DescriptionDo you worry about cyber criminals hacking your computers and other digital devices? You should. Connect a new computer to the Internet ...

DescriptionA definitive account of how we have come to understand the fundamental processes behind global warmingSyukuro Manabe is perhaps the lead...

Reducere. Natural Language Processing Crash Course for BeginnersArtificial Intelligence (AI) isn't the latest fad The reason is AI has been around since 1956...

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Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Sherry (Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and Founder, Mas...

Should digital technology be viewed as a new life form, sharing our ecosystem and coevolving with us?Are humans defining technology, or is technolo...

Reducere. "If you want to know about AI, read this book...it shows how a supposedly futuristic reverence for Artificial Intelligence retards progress when it...

Reducere. DescriptionSPACE AGE INDIANS presents the encounters of American Indians who lived from the time when the first human astronauts ventured into spac...

Reducere. ELON MUSKElon Musk is the CEO of SpaceX, one of the leading lights at Tesla, and the head honcho of many other companies. His successes are many, b...

Reducere. ELON MUSKElon Musk is the CEO of SpaceX, one of the leading lights at Tesla, and the head honcho of many other companies. His successes are many, b...

Reducere. Are you looking for a complete guide to better manage a computer network? Here is the book for you Computer network was created to connect individu...

DescriptionIf machine learning transforms the nature of knowledge, does it also transform the practice of critical thought?Machine learning--progra...

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DescriptionAward-winning author Don Brown explores computers and technology in book two of the Big Ideas series Machines That Think explores machin...

Reducere. Introducing computers into production engineering has drastically reduced the "artisan skill" content traditionally required in manufacturing proce...

Reducere. Glimpses of Another World: Impressions and Reflections of an EVP Operator is Anabela Cardoso's third work.Following on from Electronic Voices: Cont...

The notion that "thinking about computing is one of the most exciting things the human mind can do" sets both The Little Schemer (formerly known as...

The notion that "thinking about computing is one of the most exciting things the human mind can do" sets both The Little Schemer (formerly known as...

Reducere. Can computers be creative? Is algorithmic art just a form of Candy Crush? Cutting through the smoke and mirrors surrounding computation, robotics a...

Reducere. Coupled atmosphere-ocean models are at the core of numerical climate models. There is an extraordinarily broad class of coupled atmosphere-ocean mo...

Reducere. Coupled atmosphere-ocean models are at the core of numerical climate models. There is an extraordinarily broad class of coupled atmosphere-ocean mo...

The eagerly anticipated new edition of the bestselling introduction to x86 assembly language The long-awaited third edition of this bestselling int...

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Reducere. In its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as memory, learning, symbolic thought, and language acquisitio...

``Written by three experts in the field, Deep Learning is the only comprehensive book on the subject.`` -- Elon Musk, cochair of OpenAI; cofounder ...

DescriptionWhat does it mean to think about technology philosophically? Why try? These are the issues that Carl Mitcham addresses in this work, a c...

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DescriptionHumanity's super-intelligent AI Gods brutally punish breaches in reality, as one young scientist discovers, in this intense and brillian...

DescriptionSeven years after his acclaimed and bestselling The Kaufman Repertoire for Black and White, Grandmaster Larry Kaufman is back with his n...

DescriptionEverything you've always wanted to know about self-driving cars, Netflix recommendations, IBM's Watson, and video game-playing computer ...

Reducere. In 2021, the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Breakthrough, "What happens after physical death?" is still the big question concerning t...

Reducere. DescriptionWith recent advances in natural language understanding techniques and far-field microphone arrays, natural language interfaces, such as ...

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With recent advances in natural language understanding techniques and far-field microphone arrays, natural language interfaces, such as voice assis...

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A richly-illustrated, full-color introduction to deep learning that offers visual and conceptual explanations instead of equations. You'll learn ho...