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Author
Publisher
ECCO, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"As robots are increasingly integrated into modern society--on the battlefield and the road, in business, education, and health--Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times science writer John Markoff searches for an answer to one of the most important questions of our age: will these machines help us, or will they replace us? In the past decade alone, Google introduced us to driverless cars, Apple debuted a personal assistant that we keep in our pockets,...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Life in the Caspian Republic has taught Agent Nikolai South two rules. Trust No One. And work just hard enough not to make enemies. Here, in the last sanctuary for the dying embers of the human race in a world run by artificial intelligence, if you stray from the path - your life is forfeit. But when a Party propagandist is killed - and is discovered as a 'machine'--he's given a new mission: chaperone the widow, Lily, who has arrived to claim her...
Author
Series
Illuminae files volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship's artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all"--
64) Loki's ring
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Ri, the AI she trained from inception, is trapped in the depths of Loki's Ring, an artificial alien-made solar system where everyone has been infected and killed by a mysterious contagion, Captain Gita Chithra must save Ri and her crew from the horrors they face at every turn.
65) Robots and AI
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Robots and AI is a beautifully designed reader all about robots that work, explore, help and rescue humans, and some of the amazing scientists who have created them. The engaging text has been carefully leveled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about microbots, mega bots and everything in between!--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In the popular imagination, superhuman artificial intelligence is an approaching tidal wave that threatens not just jobs and human relationships, but civilization itself. Conflict between humans and machines is seen as inevitable and its outcome all too predictable. In this groundbreaking book, distinguished AI researcher Stuart Russell argues that this scenario can be avoided, but only if we rethink AI from the ground up. Russell begins by exploring...
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking endeavor that explores human spirituality using the evolving technology of artificial intelligence"--
What happens when the world's most advanced AI is prompted with the spiritual and philosophical texts that have formed the basis of human belief--and then answers our most pressing questions about life? A bold and daring endeavor, What Makes Us Human? offers a contemporary and moving exploration of what makes us humans, humans.
68) Agency
Author
Series
Peripheral volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
""One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working" (The Boston Globe) returns with a sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Peripheral. Verity Jane, gifted app-whisperer, has been out of work since her exit from a brief but problematic relationship with a Silicon Valley billionaire. Then she signs the wordy NDA of a dodgy San Francisco start-up, becoming the beta tester for their latest product: a digital...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Despite having access to more resources than ever, our doctors are overloaded with demands for their time and expertise. In Deep Medicine, leading physician Eric Topol shows how artificial intelligence can help. Natural-language processing can record our doctor's notes, make sense of our medical histories, and read more deeply into the scientific literature than any human ever could. Deep-learning algorithms -- applied to wearable sensors, genomic...
70) Aberration
Author
Series
Children of the Consortium volume 2
Publisher
Enclave Publishing, an imprint of Oasis Family Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When rogue drones threaten citizens and the ship's crew falls ill, the Recorder answers their call for help, one again drawing scrutiny from the Consortium. With no other option and under an Elder's overbearing watch, she returns to Pallas Station where she nearly lost her life in the hope of finding something--anything--to save her friends and countless others. Her friends are determined to keep her safe, but for the Recorder, saving others comes...
72) Dual memory
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Antonio Moro lost everything to the Leviathan League. Now he's alone in a city on an Arctic island fighting the ruthless, global pirates with the chance to be the artist he always wanted to be. Unfortunately, he thinks it's a cover story for his real purpose-spying on sympathizers. When things look bleak, he discovers an unusual ally. His new personal assistant program, Par Augustus. It's insolent, extroverted, moody, and a not-quite-legal nascent...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Come and meet the smartest artificial intelligences of the past, present, and future. This book introduces pioneering machines such as Watson and Sophia and lifts the lid on how they work. Meet machines that look like humans, pit your wits against AlphaGo and Deep Blue, and seek, advice from Recommendation Engine. With The Code Room, there's even a chance to imagine what it's like to be an AI yourself."--
Author
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Roughly inspired by the human brain, deep neural networks trained with large amounts of data can solve complex tasks with unprecedented accuracy. This practical book provides an end-to-end guide to TensorFlow, the leading open source software library that helps you build and train neural networks for computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), speech recognition, and general predictive analytics. Authors Tom Hope, Yehezkel Resheff, and Itay...
Author
Series
Robopocalypse novels volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The stunningly creative, epic sequel to Wilson's blockbuster thriller and New York Times bestseller Robopocalypse. "The machine is still out there. Still alive." Humankind had triumphed over the machines. At the end of Robopocalypse, the modern world was largely devastated, humankind was pressed to the point of annihilation, and the earth was left in tatters... but the master artificial intelligence presence known as Archos had been killed. In Robogenesis,...
76) Going dark
Author
Series
Red trilogy (Linda Nagata) volume 3
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"In the final book of The Red Trilogy, [former army lieutenant James] Shelley must choose who -- or what -- to trust, while struggling to contain an escalating conflict that threatens to plunge the world into chaos and destroy those he loves." -- P.4 of cover.
Author
Series
Robopocalypse novels volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Two decades into the future humans are battling for their very survival when a powerful AI computer goes rogue, and all the machines on earth rebel against their human controllers.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Inside this book is every brain-tingling, futuristic fact you need to know about robots and artificial intelligence! Read on to become a total brainiac who knows: which gross and scary jobs only robots can do, how nanobots could battle bugs inside the human body and why self-driving cars save lives."--
Author
Series
Downworld sequence volume 1
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's bold entry into the world of mecha fiction. When an AI dies, its city dies with it. When a city falls, it leaves a corpse behind. When that corpse runs off, only devotion can bring it back. When the robotic god of Khuon Mo went mad, it destroyed everything it touched. It killed its priests, its city, and all its wondrous works. But in its final death...
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