THE SHADOW PROTOCOLBook One of The Temporal Echoes SagaIn a world where reality is just another corporate asset, one man's shadow knows too much.When the protagonist awakens from what should have been a five-year medical suspension to discover fifty-two years have passed, he finds himself in a sterile SHAP facility with a perfect new body—and a shadow that moves independently of his control. As he escapes into a world controlled by the Synthetic Human Advan...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving ...

Nobody expected this—not even its creators: ChatGPT has burst onto the scene as an AI capable of writing at a convincingly human level. But how does it really work? What's going on inside its "AI mind"? In this short book, prominent scientist and computation pioneer Stephen Wolfram provides a readable and engaging explanation that draws on his decades-long unique experience at the frontiers of science and technology. Find out how the success of ChatGPT brings together the latest neural net...

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 capacities. No longer just a matter of science-fiction fantasy (2001, Blade Runner, The T...

From the team behind Computer Science for Fun (cs4fn), The Power of Computational Thinking shows that learning to think can be fascinating fun.Yes, and this book shows you how.Computational thinking has changed the way we all live, work and play. It has changed the way science is done too; won wars, created whole new industries and saved lives. It is at the heart of computer programming and is a powerful approach to problem solving, with or without computers. It is so important that many c...

Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha and the author of A New Kind of Science and An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language. In this short ebook, Dr. Wolfram dives into his theories of computation and the universe.Take a look at this short excerpt from the ebook Computation and the Future of the Human Condition:“In traditional engineering, one starts with some purpose in mind, then explicitly tries t...

Humans designed artificial intelligences, but the AIs no longer need us. They are gods, and can create – or even recreate – themselves.The two most advanced AIs in the universe need to rescue a friend from the clutches of their powerful enemies. Their method is to create millions of offshoots: restricted, cut-down versions of themselves, to fulfil specific tasks such as generating ideas. The offshoots can be deleted once they've fulfilled their role.No one ...

Most people imagine the future to be a wonderful place, perhaps even flawless. Just how good the future is? In the book: Ideas for Post-human Civilization, the author has a rather pessimistic view on this topic. Through convincing evidence, the book will show you some dangerous flaws that exist in the society today that might drive humanity to extinction in the future.

How generative systems are reshaping the way games are made, how we experience them, and what this reveals about creativity itself.In video games creativity isn't just seen, it's played – from exploring endless landscapes to diving into character details and immersing ourselves in unpredictable narratives. Yet these elements are often the result of procedural generation – the creative use of algorithms to design game content. These generative systems lie behind som...

An expert introduction to the fascinating world of robotics, artificial intelligence, and how machines learn.In Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: Ten Short Lessons, leading expert Peter J. Bentley breaks down the fast-moving world of computers into ten pivotal lessons, presenting the reader with the essential information they need to get to understand our most powerful technology and its remarkable implications for our species.From the origins ...

The Book They Never Wanted You to ReadThere Is No God: The Documented Architecture of the Afterlife (The Black Vault Files)What if death isn't the end? What if it's the routing protocol?What if the religious traditions you were taught were built around an operational system whose initiates kept the navigational knowledge for themselves?There Is No God documents the post-mortem processing environment

The year is 2052. Humanity's first interstellar intercept mission is about to change everything.When a three-kilometer alien object designated IXO is detected on a trajectory toward Earth, astrophysicist Dr. Lukas Novak is chosen to lead a four-person crew aboard the Sentinel to intercept it. What begins as a scientific expedition becomes something far more profound when they encounter the Collective—an alien intelligence that offers humanity a choice that...