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• Robots and the People Who Love Them

  Holding on to Our Humanity in An Age of Social Robots

  Herold, Eve,

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  "Drawing upon recent research in the development of social robots, including how people react to them, how in our minds the boundaries between the real and the unreal are routinely blurred when we interact with them, and how their feigned emotions…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• AI Snake Oil

  What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference

  Narayanan, Arvind,

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  "In this book, Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor explain the major strains of AI in use today: generative AI, predictive AI, and AI for content moderation. They show readers how to differentiate between them and, importantly, make a cogent argument…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Heart and the Chip

  Our Bright Future With Robots

  Rus, Daniela,

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  "Daniela Rus, a leading roboticist and computer scientist, explores how we can use a new generation of smart machines to help humankind. There is a robotics revolution underway. A record 3.1 million robots are working in factories right now, doing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• AI Valley

  Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-dollar Race to Cash in on Artificial Intelligence

  Rivlin, Gary,

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  "A journalist shadows the leading thinkers in the field of Artificial Intelligence, introducing the breakthroughs and developments that will change the way we live and work."

• The Coming Wave

  Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

  Suleyman, Mustafa,

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  "As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the centre of this revolution. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies. In The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gods and Robots

  Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology

  Mayor, Adrienne, 1946-

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  "Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations."

• Futureproof

  9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation

  Roose, Kevin,

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  "In Futureproof: 9 Rules for Machine-Age Humans, New York Times technology columnist Kevin Roose lays out an optimistic vision of how people can thrive in the machine age by rethinking their relationship with technology, and making themselves…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mastering AI

  a Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future

  Kahn, Jeremy (Jeremy A.),

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  "A Fortune magazine journalist draws on his expertise and extensive contacts among the companies and scientists at the forefront of artificial intelligence to offer dramatic predictions of AI's impact over the next decade, from reshaping our economy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Superagency

  What Could Possibly Go Right With Our AI Future

  Hoffman, Reid,

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  "Superagency offers a roadmap for using AI inclusively and adaptively to improve our lives and create positive change. While acknowledging challenges like disinformation and potential job changes, the book focuses on AI's immense potential to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Worlds I See

  Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

  Li, Fei Fei, 1976-

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  "The moving memoir of a girl coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling as a scientist at the forefront of the AI/Machine Learning revolution. Fei-Fei Li is known to the world as the creator of ImageNet, a key catalyst of modern…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Awkward Intelligence

  Where AI Goes Wrong, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do About It

  Zweig, Katharina A.,

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  "If you want to know what artificial intelligence can do and what it cannot do, in this book you will find all the information that you need in an entertaining fashion. The book covers mysterious terms like algorithm and machine learning, in an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Digital Mindset

  What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI

  Leonardi, Paul M., 1979-

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  "This book introduces three approaches-Collaboration, Computation, and Change-that you need for a digital mindset and the perspectives and actions within each approach that will enable you to develop the digital skills you need. With a digital…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Waiting for Robots

  the Hired Hands of Automation

  Casilli, Antonio A., 1972-

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  "In this bracing and powerful book, sociologist and award-winning author Antonio Casilli uses up-to-the-minute research to show how AI continues to exploit human labor, including yours. He connects the diverse activities of today's tech laborers:…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• More Everything Forever

  AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

  Becker, Adam, 1984-

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  "Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine our futures for us. According to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, and more, the only good future for humanity is one powered by technology: trillions of humans living in space,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Path to Singularity

  How Technology Will Challenge the Future of Humanity

  Wheeler, J. Craig,

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  "Technology is developing at an increasingly swift pace, and there is likely to be a tipping point when change occurs at a pace so rapid that humans are not able to adjust, either individually or as a society. J. Craig Wheeler argues that we must…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Build Your Own Robot

  Using Python, CRICKIT, and Raspberry Pi

  Al-Sabbagh, Marwan,

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  "Build Your Own Robot is a project-based guide that takes you from spinning your first DC motor to programming a mobile robot that you can control from your phone or computer. You'll write simple Python code to help your new friend spin, move, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation