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A Silicon Valley Satire

by Pedro Domingos ...

"I told you not to read books like this." —Your Mom When AI and the culture wars collide, hilarity ensues. The 2040 presidential election is unlike any in US history. The Republican candidate is an AI named PresiBot, created by a tech startup, KumbAI, who are in deeply over their heads. The Democratic candidate is a fake Native American chief seeking to abolish the United States. What could go ... Read more

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"I told you not to read books like this." —Your Mom When AI and the culture wars collide, hilarity ensues. The 2040 presidential election is unlike any in US history. The Republican candidate is an AI named PresiBot, created by a tech startup, KumbAI, who are in deeply over their heads. The Democratic candidate is a fake Native American chief seeking to abolish the United States. What could go
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The Master Algorithm

How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

by Pedro Domingos ...

**Recommended by Bill GatesA thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own**In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask. In The Master Algorithm, ... Read more

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**Recommended by Bill GatesA thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own**In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask. In The Master Algorithm,
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Markov Logic

An Interface Layer for Artificial Intelligence

by Pedro Domingos, Daniel Lowd, Ronald Brachman, William W. Cohen, Peter Stone ...

Series series Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Most subfields of computer science have an interface layer via which applications communicate with the infrastructure, and this is key to their success (e.g., the Internet in networking, the relational model in databases, etc.). So far this interface layer has been missing in AI. First-order logic and probabilistic graphical models each have some of the necessary features, but a viable interface ... Read more

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Most subfields of computer science have an interface layer via which applications communicate with the infrastructure, and this is key to their success (e.g., the Internet in networking, the relational model in databases, etc.). So far this interface layer has been missing in AI. First-order logic and probabilistic graphical models each have some of the necessary features, but a viable interface
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Master Algorithm, The

How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

by Pedro Domingos ...

Narrated by Mel Foster ...

Unabridged

13 hours 3 min

Algorithms increasingly run our lives. They find books, movies, jobs, and dates for us, manage our investments, and discover new drugs. More and more, these algorithms work by learning from the trails of data we leave in our newly digital world. Like curious children, they observe us, imitate, and experiment. And in the world’s top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ... Read more

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Algorithms increasingly run our lives. They find books, movies, jobs, and dates for us, manage our investments, and discover new drugs. More and more, these algorithms work by learning from the trails of data we leave in our newly digital world. Like curious children, they observe us, imitate, and experiment. And in the world’s top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the
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What to Think About Machines That Think

Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence

by John Brockman ...

Narrated by Brett Barry, Lisa Larsen ...

Series Audiobook 20 - Edge Question Series
Unabridged

14 hours 59 min

Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today’s most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of “machines that think.”Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” Others, conversely, have trumpeted a new age of “superintelligence” in which smart devices will exponentially extend human ... Read more

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Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today’s most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of “machines that think.”Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” Others, conversely, have trumpeted a new age of “superintelligence” in which smart devices will exponentially extend human
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How to Create a Mind

The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

by Ray Kurzweil ...

Narrated by Christopher Lane ...

Unabridged

10 hours 4 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bold futurist and renowned author of The Singularity Is Near explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain.“This book is a Rosetta Stone for the mystery of human thought.”—Martine Rothblatt, chairman and CEO, United Therapeutics, and creator of Sirius XM Satellite Radio“Kurzweil’s vision of our super-enhanced future is completely sane and ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bold futurist and renowned author of The Singularity Is Near explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain.“This book is a Rosetta Stone for the mystery of human thought.”—Martine Rothblatt, chairman and CEO, United Therapeutics, and creator of Sirius XM Satellite Radio“Kurzweil’s vision of our super-enhanced future is completely sane and
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Love and Math

The Heart of Hidden Reality

by Edward Frenkel ...

Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

Unabridged

10 hours 7 min

**A "powerful, passionate, and inspiring" (New York Times) journey through the beauty and power of mathematicsNew York Times Bestseller**What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes the ... Read more

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**A "powerful, passionate, and inspiring" (New York Times) journey through the beauty and power of mathematicsNew York Times Bestseller**What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes the
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Beyond Weird

by Philip Ball ...

Narrated by Jonathan Cowley ...

Unabridged

9 hours 20 min

"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it's not really telling us that "weird" things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the atomic world: rather, everything is quantum. But if quantum mechanics is correct, what seems obvious and right in our ... Read more

$19.99 USD

"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it's not really telling us that "weird" things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the atomic world: rather, everything is quantum. But if quantum mechanics is correct, what seems obvious and right in our
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Artificial Unintelligence

How Computers Misunderstand the World

by Meredith Broussard ...

Narrated by Andrea Emmes ...

Unabridged

7 hours 46 min

In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed systems. We are so eager to do everything digitally—hiring, driving, paying bills, even choosing romantic partners—that we have stopped demanding that our technology actually work. Broussard, a ... Read more

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In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed systems. We are so eager to do everything digitally—hiring, driving, paying bills, even choosing romantic partners—that we have stopped demanding that our technology actually work. Broussard, a
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Signals

How Everyday Signs Can Help Us Navigate the World's Turbulent Economy

by Dr Pippa Malmgren ...

Narrated by Dr Pippa Malmgren ...

Unabridged

12 hours 47 min

SIGNALS is the story of the world economy, told in the language of everyday objects, places and events - from magazine covers and supermarkets to public protests.'A tour de force' Lord Rose, former CEO and Chairman of Marks & Spencer'Dr Pippa Malmgren's book is essential reading' Dr Liam Fox, former British Defence Minister'Better than Piketty' James Galbraith, Chair of Government and... ... Read more

$24.99 USD

SIGNALS is the story of the world economy, told in the language of everyday objects, places and events - from magazine covers and supermarkets to public protests.'A tour de force' Lord Rose, former CEO and Chairman of Marks & Spencer'Dr Pippa Malmgren's book is essential reading' Dr Liam Fox, former British Defence Minister'Better than Piketty' James Galbraith, Chair of Government and...
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Quantum Theory

A Very Short Introduction

by John Polkinghorne ...

Unabridged

3 hours 35 min

Quantum theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. It does not disguise the problems of interpretation that still remain unsettled seventy-five years after the initial discoveries. Uncertainty, probabilistic physics, ... Read more

$12.99 USD

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Quantum theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. It does not disguise the problems of interpretation that still remain unsettled seventy-five years after the initial discoveries. Uncertainty, probabilistic physics,
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Capitalism without Capital

The Rise of the Intangible Economy

by Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake ...

Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

Unabridged

8 hours 56 min

Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, the ability to deploy assets that one can neither see nor touch is increasingly the main source of long-term ... Read more

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Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, the ability to deploy assets that one can neither see nor touch is increasingly the main source of long-term
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