Memory broker Elara Chen makes her living trading in human experiences—until a mysterious neural package containing the consciousness of murdered scientist Dr. Casper Novak changes everything.When Elara connects to Casper's memories, she doesn't just experience his past—she awakens his digital soul trapped in the global neural network. As their impossible romance blooms through shared memories and virtual intimacy, Elara discovers the dark truth behind Casper's dea...

***'*This is the most important conversation of our time, and Tegmark's thought-provoking book will help you join it' Stephen HawkingTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. DAILY TELEGRAPH AND THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEARSELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2018**AI is the future - but what will that future look like? Will superhuman intelligence be our slave, or become our god?Taking us to the heart of the latest thinking about AI, Max...

Elon Musk named Our Final Invention one of five books everyone should read about the future—a Huffington Post Definitive Tech Book of 2013.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...

An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people and companies making it happen.How did we build large language models? How do they think, if they think? What will the world look like if we have billions of AIs that are as smart as humans, or even smarter?In a series of in-depth interviews with leading AI researchers and company founders—including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever, MI...

'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype'If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we'll soon have no choice but to address, make it this one' Washington Post'The best book yet written on the most important problem of the twenty-first century' Luke Muehlhauser, Executive Director, Machine Intelligence Research Institut...

"****An excellent, extremely up-to-date overview of the most important technological revolution in human history." - Prof. Jeff Clune, University of British Columbia"If I were to recommend one book on AI, this would be it!" - Dr Edward Hughes, LSE & Google DeepMindExplore humanity's most transformative technology: artificial intelligence...In ten short and informative essays, Profe...

Sometime in the future the intelligence of machines will exceed that of human brain power.So are we on the edge of an AI-pocalypse, with superintelligent devices superseding humanity, as predicted by Stephen Hawking? Or will this herald a kind of Utopia, with machines doing a far better job at complex tasks than us?You might not realise it, but you interact with AIs every day. They route your phone calls, approve your credit card transactions and help your d...

Welcome to Tecant.Nothing ever happens here.Until today.Ruabon Nadarl is just another low-ranking member of the scan crew, slaving away for the oppressive UFS government which "liberated" his homeworld. To help pass the time during long shifts he builds secret personalities into the robots he controls.Then Ruabon detects an intruder on the surface of a vital communications tower.He could just report ...

In The Thought Harvesters, humanity's greatest scientific breakthrough becomes its most dangerous threat. CipherNet Labs creates groundbreaking technology capable of extracting and augmenting human thoughts, promising to elevate consciousness itself. Brilliant minds Elena Ramirez and Marcus Lee eagerly embrace this revolutionary frontier, unaware of the profound ethical and psychological consequences that await.As experiments escalate, subtle anomalies emerge—subjects chan...

Master the technology reshaping our world today.In a series of 50 accessible essays, Keith Mansfield introduces and explains the essential concepts, ideas and key thinkers behind artificial intelligence.From Alan Turing asking 'can machines think?' and the best prompting techniques for generative AI, to Superintelligence and the Singularity, 50 AI Ideas You Really Need to Know is a complete introduction to the most important AI concepts: past, pres...

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.

At the inauguration of the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence at Harvard University, physicist Stephen Hawking summarized his concerns in the following sentence: "The rise of powerful AI will be either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity. We do not yet know which". This could be an interesting way to approach artificial intelligence: navigating a path between enthusiasm and caution, between wonder and terror.