Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in United States

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “stuart armstrong”
Skip side bar filters

  • Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence

    by Stuart Armstrong ...
    What happens when machines become smarter than humans? Forget lumbering Terminators. The power of an artificial intelligence (AI) comes from its intelligence, not physical strength and laser guns. Humans steer the future not because we're the strongest or the fastest but because we're the smartest. When machines become smarter than humans, we'll be handing them the steering wheel. What promises ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Technological Singularity

    Managing the Journey

    Edited by Victor Callaghan, James Miller, Roman Yampolskiy, Stuart Armstrong ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume contains a selection of authoritative essays exploring thecentral questions raised by the conjectured technological singularity.In informed yet jargon-free contributions written by active researchscientists, philosophers and sociologists, it goes beyond philosophicaldiscussion to provide a detailed account of the risks that the singularityposes to human society and, perhaps most ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Superintelligence

    Paths, Dangers, Strategies

    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

    $11.39 USD

  • The Second Machine Age

    Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

    by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee ...
    A New York Times Bestseller. A “fascinating” (Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times) look at how digital technology is transforming our work and our lives.In recent years, Google’s autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM’s Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies—with hardware, software, and networks at their core—will in the near ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Traumatized Brain

    A Family Guide to Understanding Mood, Memory, and Behavior after Brain Injury

    by Vani Rao, Sandeep Vaishnavi ...
    Series series A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
    Useful information and real hope for patients and families whose lives have been altered by traumatic brain injury.A traumatic brain injury is a life-changing event, affecting an individual’s lifestyle, ability to work, relationships—even personality. Whatever caused it—car crash, work accident, sports injury, domestic violence, combat—a severe blow to the head results in acute and, often, lasting ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Singularity Hypotheses

    A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment

    Edited by Amnon H. Eden, James H Moor, Eric Steinhart, Johnny H Soraker ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment offers authoritative, jargon-free essays and critical commentaries on accelerating technological progress and the notion of technological singularity. It focuses on conjectures about the intelligence explosion, transhumanism, and whole brain emulation. Recent years have seen a plethora of forecasts about the profound, disruptive ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Responsible Innovation 1

    Innovative Solutions for Global Issues

    Edited by Jeroen van den Hoven, Neelke Doorn, Tsjalling Swierstra, Bert-Jaap Koops, Henny Romijn ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book addresses the methodological issues involved in responsible innovation and provides an overview of recent applications of multidisciplinary research. Responsible innovation involves research into the ethical and societal aspects of new technologies (e.g. ICT, nanotechnology, biotechnology and brain sciences) and of changes in technological systems (e.g. energy, transport, agriculture and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Systemic Vasculitides: Current Status and Perspectives

    Edited by Franco Dammacco, Domenico Ribatti, Angelo Vacca ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    In spite of their relatively low prevalence, systemic vasculitides have been the object of intensive basic and clinical investigations over the last few years. As a consequence, important advancements have been achieved: from updated diagnostic and classification criteria and a more rational nomenclature to the recognition of an expanding spectrum of clinical manifestations and potentially ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Neurolaw

    An Introduction

    Edited by Eugenio Picozza ...
    This volume illustrates to the public, and legal experts, the basic principles of the field of neuroscience, that commonly goes under the name of Neurolaw. First, it illustrates the relationship between neuroscience, natural sciences and social sciences. Furthermore, it highlights numerous problems concerning the fundamental philosophical concepts used by Neurolaw and evaluates the validity of the ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Convergence of Knowledge, Technology and Society

    Beyond Convergence of Nano-Bio-Info-Cognitive Technologies

    Edited by Bruce Tonn, George Whitesides, William S. Bainbridge, Mihail C. Roco ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This volume aims to document the most important worldwide accomplishments in converging knowledge and technology, including converging platforms, methods of convergence, societal implications, and governance in the last ten years. Convergence in knowledge, technology, and society is the accelerating, transformative interaction among seemingly distinct scientific disciplines, technologies, and ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Neuroethics and the Scientific Revision of Common Sense

    by Nada Gligorov ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is focused on the examination of the particular relationship between developments in neuroscience and commonsense concepts, such as free will, personal identity, privacy, etc., which feature prominently in moral discourse. In the book common sense is recast as an ever-shifting repository of theories from many domains, including science. Utilizing this alternative characterization of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Dynamics of Visual Motion Processing

    Neuronal, Behavioral, and Computational Approaches

    Edited by Guillaume S. Masson, Uwe J. Ilg ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Motion processing is an essential piece of the complex brain machinery that allows us to reconstruct the 3D layout of objects in the environment, to break camouflage, to perform scene segmentation, to estimate the ego movement, and to control our action. Although motion perception and its neural basis have been a topic of intensive research and modeling the last two decades, recent experimental ... Read more

    $143.09 USD