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...

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 ...

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...

"****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...

Many impressive achievements have recently emerged in machine learning and narrow AI. For example, modern deep neural networks can recognize and even generate some types of patterns even better than humans can. Some experts think that deep learning is a direct road to artificial general intelligence, but others think differently and propose alternative ideas such as advanced spiking neural networks, neuromorphic architecture, or quantum computing.This e-book will cover the main cla...

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.

Tony Thorne MBE's new 'fact against fiction' book is probably his most important ever. It's about THE SINGULARITY, and the resulting Artificial Intelligence Explosion. So what is a singularity? It's easiest described as a one way event, something which once it occurs cannot be reversed. We might say that a commercial plane crash is a singularity. Being born seems to fit the definition too, initially. So what kind of singularity phenomenon is explored in this book?Many scientists cla...