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Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine
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| Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine |
Hannah Fry takes us on a tour of the good, the bad and the downright ugly of the algorithms that surround us.
The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
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| The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity |
In The Fourth Age, Byron Reese makes the case that technology has
reshaped humanity just three times in history: 100,000 years ago, we
harnessed fire, which led to language; 10,000 years ago, we developed
agriculture, which led to cities and warfare; 5,000 years ago, we
invented the wheel and writing, which lead to the nation state.
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are now on the doorstep of a fourth change brought about by two
technologies: AI and robotics. “Timely, highly informative, and
certainly optimistic” (Booklist), The Fourth Age provides an essential background on how we got to this point, and how—rather than what—we
should think about the topics we’ll soon all be facing: machine
consciousness, automation, changes in employment, creative computers,
radical life extension, artificial life, AI ethics, the future of
warfare, superintelligence, and the implications of extreme prosperity.
Publisher: Atria Books; Reprint Edition (16 April 2020)
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