Beyond AI
Creating the Conscience of the Machine
Written by J. Storrs Hall, Ph.D.
Format: Hardcover, 408 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $28.99
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now advancing at such a rapid clip that it has the potential to transform our world in ways both exciting and disturbing. Computers have already been designed that are capable of driving cars, playing soccer, and finding and organizing information on the Web in ways that no...
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Rapture for the Geeks
When AI Outsmarts IQ
Written by Richard Dooling
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $11.99
Will the Geeks inherit the earth?
If computers become twice as fast and twice as capable every two years, how long is it before they’re as intelligent as humans? More intelligent? And then in two more years, twice as intelligent? How long before you won’t be able to tell if you are...
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Arguing A.I.
The Battle for Twenty-first-Century Science
Written by Sam Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2002
Price: $15.00
Few scientific topics since the theory of biological evolution have inspired as much controversy as artificial intelligence has. Even now, fifty years after the term first made its appearance in academic journals, many philosophers and more than a few prominent scientists and software programmers dismiss the pursuit of thinking machines as...
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CodeNotes for XML
Written by Gregory Brill
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2002
Price: $11.99
CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way for a developer to ramp up on a new technology or language. Unlike other programming books,
CodeNotes drills down to the core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to understand it quickly and implement it immediately...
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Rapture for the Geeks
When AI Outsmarts IQ
Written by Richard Dooling
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $14.00
“Nimble and entertaining . . . A fascinating historical review of our longtime obsession with machines.”
–David Takami,
Seattle TimesIn
Rapture for the Geeks, Richard Dooling looks at what some of the greatest minds have to say about our roles in a future in which technology rapidly leaves us in the...
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