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AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Kai-Fu Lee - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book
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Here are two well-known facts: Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the world as we know it. The United States has long been, and remains, the global leader in AI. That first fact is correct. But in his provocative new book, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee - one of the world's most respected experts... |
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Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
BRIAN MERCHANT - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book
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The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when an underground network of 19th century rebels, the Luddites, took up arms against the industrialists that were automating their work - and how it explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech... |
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Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Cal Newport - Portfolio
Format: Book
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The key to living well in a high tech world is to spend much less time using technology.Georgetown computer scientist Cal Newport's Deep Work sparked a movement around the idea that unbroken concentration produces far more value than the electronic busyness that defines... |
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Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
Kevin Roose - Random House
Format: Book
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The machines are here. After decades of sci-fi fantasies and hype, A.I. and automation have leapt out of research labs and Silicon Valley engineering departments and into the center of our lives. These machines aren't just threatening jobs - they're shaping every part of our lives,... |
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The Heart and the Chip
Daniela Rus - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book
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Daniela Rus, a leading roboticist and computer scientist, explores how we can use a new generation of smart machines to help humankind.There is a robotics revolution underway. A record 3.1 million robots are working in factories right now, doing everything from assembling computers to packing... |
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Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
HANNAH FRY - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book
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A look inside the algorithms that are shaping our lives and the dilemmas they bring with them.If you were accused of a crime, who would you rather decide your sentence -- a mathematically consistent algorithm incapable of empathy or a compassionate human judge prone to bias and error?... |
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How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms
GERD GIGERENZER - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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How to stay in charge in a world populated by algorithms that beat us in chess, find us romantic partners, and tell us to "turn right in 500 yards."Doomsday prophets of technology predict that robots will take over the world, leaving humans behind in the dust. Tech industry boosters... |
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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Stuart J Russell - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to coexist successfully with increasingly intelligent machines.In the popular imagination, superhuman artificial intelligence is an approaching tidal wave that threatens not just jobs and human... |
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Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Joseph Aoun
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How to educate the next generation of college students to invent, to create, and to discover -- filling needs that even the most sophisticated robot cannot.Driverless cars are hitting the road, powered by artificial intelligence. Robots can climb stairs, open door |
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