Machine History

Companies like Facebook and Twitter have redefined social interaction. But what if "machines" like automobiles, bicycles, health monitors, appliances, instruments, and anything else you can connect to the Internet, could all become members of your social network, collect data you care about, and feed it back to you at just the right time?

The weather is the foundation of our daily lives. It’s a staple of small talk, the app on our smartphones, and often the first thing we check each morning. Yet behind all these humble interactions is the largest and most elaborate piece of infrastructure human beings have ever constructed - a triumph of both science and global cooperation. But what is the weather machine, and who created it?

More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of freedom and mobility. They have transformed our sense of distance and made the world infinitely more available to our eyes and our imaginations. They have inspired cinema, music and literature; they have, by their need for roads, bridges, filling stations, huge factories and global supply chains, re-engineered the world.

Search is as old as language. There has always been a need for one to find something in the jumble of human creation. The first web was nothing more than passing verbal histories down the generations so others could find and remember how not to get eaten; the first search used the power of written language to build simple indexes in printed books, leading to the Dewey Decimal system and reverse indices in more modern times. Then digital happened.

If Artificial Intelligence can cure diseases, restructure economies, and even revolutionize warfare—what does that mean for humanity’s future? In The AI Paradox: Threats, Risks, and Our Future Survival, neuroscientist and Applied AI student Dr. Tursun Alkam unravels the competing forces shaping our world. Dr. Alkam navigates the rapid rise of AI, exposing both its game-changing promise and its most harrowing dangers. From autonomous weapons and disinformation campaigns to existential concerns about superintelligence, this book delivers a comprehensive exploration of AI’s double-edged sword.

Dive into the fascinating world of how both your brain and AI learn through supervised learning! In this engaging and accessible book, neuroscientist Dr. Tursun Alkam takes you on a journey to explore the incredible learning capabilities of the human brain and the revolutionary world of Artificial Intelligence.

How smart machines are transforming us all - and what we should do about it. The smart machines revolution is reshaping our lives and our societies. Here, Nigel Shadbolt (one of Britain’s leading authorities on artificial intelligence) and Roger Hampson dispel terror, confusion and misconception. We are not about to be elbowed aside by a rebel army of superintelligent robots of our own creation. We were using tools before we became Homo sapiens and will continue to control them. How we exercise that control - in our private lives, in employment, in politics - and make the best of the wonderful opportunities will determine our collective future well-being.

Imagine controlling a machine with your mind. Imagine a communication line direct from your mind to someone else's. Imagine controlling a prosthetic limb with a thought or "seeing" through a camera located miles away. Once the stuff of science fiction, such remarkable feats are now within the grasp of neuroscience. Malcolm Gay tells the fascinating stories of the researchers delving into the intricate workings of the brain to map the neural signals that make up our thoughts.

Как говорил Антон Павлович Чехов, "Если в начале пьесы на стене висит ружье, то к концу оно должно выстрелить". Ружья, развешанные инженером Скамовым за первые пять лет, уже стреляют, дом построен, Митяй усыновлен, дерево посадить недолго… Живи да работай—хорошая жизнь!

In Search of a Right-Brained Computer is the story of my search to find a computer for my right-brained wife. Since I'm left-brained, this was perhaps a futile attempt. Yet I pursued it. What I found was what makes right- and left-brained people ask the same questions while asking different questions. I explore each of the main questions one might ask when purchasing a computer. I then go through a computer system I designed in an attempt to design a right-brained computer. Then I analyze where it came close to meeting its mark and where it fell short.

"Elementary, my dear Rand. It works because it's impossible!" - Quinn Schmul, eccentric inventor. A whirlwind tale of time travel, magic, science, coffee, geeks, logic, fallacy, and spaghetti. Rand likes his coffee, his sleep, and the study of philosophy. Especially philosophy. He craves the beauty and rigor of it. That's why he's studying formal logic at an age when he should be doing something far more sensible with his life. It's a mystery how he ended up getting roped into his girlfriend-inventor's latest experiment. Sure, yeah, Quinn has terrific hair, and as a barista in her day job, ...

Herman Narula argues that it is all of these things. His vision of the metaverse, deeply rooted in history and psychology, looks to the Egyptians, whose conception of death inspired them to build the pyramids, to modern-day sports fans whose fantasy leagues are as competitive as the real thing, and finds that humanity has always sought to supplement our day-to-day lives with a rich diversity of alternative immersive experiences.

This groundbreaking audiobook challenges listeners to contemplate the profound differences between divine omnipotence and the limitations of artificial intelligence. Narrated with clarity and depth, this thought-provoking journey takes you through twelve captivating chapters that contrast the infinite capabilities of God with the finite potential of AI.

There have been secret codes since before the Old Testament, and there were secret codes in the Old Testament too. Almost as soon as writing was invented, so too were the devious means to hide messages and keep them under the wraps of secrecy. In 50 Codes That Changed the World, Sinclair McKay explores these uncrackable codes, secret cyphers and hidden messages from across time to tell a new history of a secret world.

Ähnlich wie bei der künstlichen Intelligenz gibt es keine offizielle universelle Definition, was das Metaverse ist oder was nicht.Die Metaverse ist nicht der Spiegel einer bereits existierenden physischen Welt, sondern etwas völlig Neues.

The Armenians were a crucial part of the army of Alexander the Great following him to the ends of the known world at that time.

What do some of our greatest thinkers, from physicist Brian Greene and futurist Kevin Kelly to inventor Dean Kamen, geneticist George Church, and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, anticipate for our human-robot future? From present-day Facebook and Amazon bots to near-future 'intimacy' bots and 'the robot that stole my job' bots, best-selling American popular science writer David Ewing Duncan's Talking to Robots is a wonderfully entertaining and insightful guide to possible future scenarios about robots, both real and imagined.

Erkunden Sie die faszinierende Welt der Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) mit diesem umfassenden Leitfaden. Das Buch bietet eine detaillierte Einführung in die grundlegenden Konzepte und Anwendungen der KI und beleuchtet ihre tiefgreifenden Auswirkungen auf unser tägliches Leben und die Zukunft unserer Gesellschaft. Von den grundlegenden Funktionsweisen neuronaler Netze und maschinellen Lernens bis hin zu den ethischen Herausforderungen und sozialen Implikationen erklärt der Autor verständlich und klar komplexe Technologien.

In the swirling currents of technological evolution, "Beyond Eden: Ethics, Faith, and the Future of Superintelligent AI" stands as an essential auditory voyage through the ethical, philosophical, and spiritual domains reshaped by the advent of superintelligent artificial intelligence. This pivotal audiobook, voiced by a leading expert in Christian ethics in the AI domain, beckons Christians and the wider audience to explore the deep interconnections between faith and the forefront of technological innovation.

Tomorrow's Mind is not just a book about AI; it's a journey into the future of our own minds, a future that is being written now, with every algorithm and every line of code. As AI continues to shape our world, this book is an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand the profound impact it will have on the way we think, create, and decide.