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Friends. Lovers. Therapists. 'Deathbots'. Artificial intelligence is now fulfilling new roles for millions of us every single day. How are these new 'relationships' changing how we view technology - and each other? Beyond those who are using AI chatbots for administrative tasks, some people are now preparing to adopt children with their AI partners; others are reaching out to companies offering services to 'resurrect' deceased loved ones; others still look to bots to find treatment for their mental health issues.

Together, these two audiobooks form the perfect synergy for anyone looking to embrace the AI revolution. Whether you're aiming to harness AI for your business, curious about the technologies shaping our world, or eager to build a career in AI, the "AI Unleashed Bundle" equips you with the knowledge and insights you need to thrive in an AI-driven future.

Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking listeners on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories, and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In this provocative reflection on the shared pasts of literature and computer science, former Microsoft engineer and professor of comparative literature Dennis Yi Tenen provides crucial context for recent developments in AI, which holds important lessons for the future of humans living with smart technology.

"AI for Educators" will empower you to: 1) Navigate the ethical maze of AI with confidence and grace. 2) Prepare your students for jobs that don't even exist yet. 3) Become the cool teacher who "gets it" in the eyes of your tech-savvy students.

Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology, and Reality tells the story of this technology and the celebrated men who developed it with some success, but also with failures that are never mentioned in the celebratory literature on vaccines. Vaccine advocates often proclaim that they “follow the science,” but most vaccine development has been a matter of guesses, gambles, and wild experimentation. Its key figures have been biased by religious faith, wishful thinking, ideology, and a desire for recognition and money.

Data science happens in code. The ability to write reproducible, robust, scaleable code is key to a data science project's success—and is absolutely essential for those working with production code. This practical book bridges the gap between data science and software engineering, and clearly explains how to apply the best practices from software engineering to data science.

One of the government’s former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think what you think and do as you do. You use it to change the thoughts and behaviours of others – just as...

For millennia, humans have tried and often failed to master nature and transcend our limits. But this has started to change. The new scientific frontier is the human body: the greatest engineers of our generation have turned their sights inward, and their work is beginning to revolutionize...

In Digitally Curious, futurist, speaker, and technology trends expert Andrew Grill delivers an easy-to-follow and incisive discussion of current and future technologies, as well as how leading companies are deploying them. The author examines critical business concepts, like the future of work, from a technical and human-centric point of view and how Artificial Intelligence will impact us at work and in society. He includes a broad range of relevant technologies and platforms, offering examples that will be immediately relevant to any industry and business.

Terrence Sejnowski offers a nuanced exploration of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and what their future holds. How should we go about understanding LLMs? Do these language models truly understand what they are saying? Or is it possible that what appears to be intelligence in LLMs may be a mirror that merely reflects the intelligence of the interviewer? In this book, Sejnowski, a pioneer in computational approaches to understanding brain function, answers all our urgent questions about this astonishing new technology.

Digital strategist, technologist, doctoral researcher, acclaimed management thinker, and seasoned business executive Hamilton Mann emphasizes that the challenge of AI is in ensuring systems that exhibit integrity-led capabilities over the pursuit of mere general or super intelligence. Mann tackles the inadequacies of traditional ethical frameworks in handling the complexities of new AI technologies to make them trustworthy and reliable as they profoundly impact human lives.

Le lancement de ChatGPT, fin 2022, a inauguré le tournant intellectuel et créatif de l'intelligence artificielle. Désormais, il est demandé à des systèmes de prendre le relais de nos facultés les plus fondamentales – en premier lieu celle de produire du langage et des symboles. Comment ne pas saisir l'ampleur des conséquences sociales, culturelles et civilisationnelles induites ? Celles-ci sont principalement de trois ordres. Premièrement, il est mis entre les mains de tous des technologies générant un pseudo-langage, car mathématisé, statistique et standardisé, appelé à devenir hégémonique.

The definitive insider's history of the genetic revolution--significantly updated to reflect the discoveries of the last decade. James D. Watson, the Nobel laureate whose pioneering work helped unlock the mystery of DNA's structure, charts the greatest scientific journey of our time, from the...

Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing the way we interact with technology—powering chatbots, automating content creation, summarizing information, writing code, and even generating art. Large Language Models (LLMs) is your definitive guide to understanding these groundbreaking AI systems and how they’re reshaping industries, workflows, and everyday life.

Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the "smart" in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and transportation infrastructure. But Artificial Intelligence can also threaten our existence. In as little as a decade, AI could match and then surpass human intelligence. Corporations and government agencies are pouring billions into achieving AI’s Holy Grail - human-level intelligence.

A gripping journey of discovery, The Catalyst moves from the early experiments that first hinted at RNA's spectacular powers, to Cech's own paradigm-shifting finding that it can catalyze cellular reactions, to the cutting-edge biotechnologies poised to reshape our health.

Get the details, examples, and best practices you need to build generative AI applications, services, and solutions using the power of Azure OpenAI Service. Microsoft AI specialist Adrián González Sánchez examines the integration and utilization of Azure OpenAI Service within the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform.

As artificial intelligence evolves beyond narrow task execution, a new frontier is emerging—Building Agency AI, where intelligent systems are designed to act with autonomy, adapt to uncertainty, and pursue goals independently.

In the age of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven innovation, the quality and quantity of data have become critical to success. Yet real-world data is often incomplete, biased, sensitive, or scarce. Data Generation explores how synthetic, real, and simulated data can be strategically created and used to overcome these limitations—fueling smarter systems, scalable solutions, and more ethical outcomes.

Brought to you by Penguin. The past decade has witnessed extraordinary advances in artificial intelligence. But what precisely is it and where does its future lie? In this brilliant, one-stop guide WIRED journalist Matt Burgess explains everything you need to know about AI. He describes how it...