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  • Rage Inside the Machine

    The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All

    by Robert Elliott Smith ...
    Shortlisted for the 2020 Business Book AwardsWe live in a world increasingly ruled by technology; we seem as governed by technology as we do by laws and regulations. Frighteningly often, the influence of technology in and on our lives goes completely unchallenged by citizens and governments. We comfort ourselves with the soothing refrain that technology has no morals and can display no prejudice, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rage Inside the Machine

    The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All

    by Robert Elliott Smith ...
    Shortlisted for the 2020 Business Book AwardsWe live in a world increasingly ruled by technology; we seem as governed by technology as we do by laws and regulations. Frighteningly often, the influence of technology in and on our lives goes completely unchallenged by citizens and governments. We comfort ourselves with the soothing refrain that technology has no morals and can display no prejudice, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Rage Inside the Machine

    The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All

    by Robert Elliott Smith ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 19 min

    We live in a world increasingly ruled by technology; we seem as governed by technology as we do by laws and regulations. Frighteningly often, the influence of technology in and on our lives goes completely unchallenged by citizens and governments. We comfort ourselves with the soothing refrain that technology has no morals and can display no prejudice, and it's only the users of technology who ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBooks

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    Less is More

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    The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONThe beloved debut novel that will restore your faith in humanityWhen Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The ship, which has seen better days, offers her everything she could ... Read more

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  • Superintelligence

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    by Nick Bostrom ...
    The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of ... Read more

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  • How Data Happened

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    by Chris Wiggins, Matthew L. Jones ...
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  • Information

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  • These Strange New Minds

    How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means

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  • The Sciences of the Artificial, third edition

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    Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science of design, this new edition of Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence adds a chapter that sorts out the current themes and tools—chaos, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms—for analyzing complexity and complex systems. There are updates throughout the book as well. These take into account important ... Read more

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  • AI

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    The applications of Artificial Intelligence lie all around us; in our homes, schools and offices, in our cinemas, in art galleries and - not least - on the Internet. The results of Artificial Intelligence have been invaluable to biologists, psychologists, and linguists in helping to understand the processes of memory, learning, and language from a fresh angle. As a concept, Artificial Intelligence ... Read more

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