The Wild Machines
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The Wild Machines
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Author : Mary Gentle
language : en
Publisher: Eos
Release Date : 2000-08-01
The Wild Machines written by Mary Gentle and has been published by Eos this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-01 with Fiction categories.
As the armies of the Visigoths plunder and ravage Europe, Duke Charles of Burgundy holds out in Dijon, a city under siege by the brutal Faris, Ash's dark twin. Original.
Machines That Learn In The Wild
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Machines That Learn In The Wild written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
Machines
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Author : Jason M. Green
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2008-08-20
Machines written by Jason M. Green and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-20 with Fiction categories.
In the later half of the twenty-first century, Jobe Corithese is hired to track down some missing people who are believed to have been kidnapped. He accepts this job after gaining information about the person who hired him, but the fact that he is being hunted by nearly every law enforcement agency on Earth will complicate his assignment considerably. So he decides to track down the only person he believes he can trust to help him complete the assignment, but the only problem is that this person, Sid Tyko, blames Jobe for his nearly dying during their first meeting. However, he does agree to help Jobe, but only because he is offered a large sum of money for his services. Then with Sid in tow, Jobe goes to join his assistant, who happens to be an android who prefers to be called Gus, who has been heavily modified by all of his previous owners to the point where he has developed a rather unique personality to go with his impressive set of skills. The three of them then leave Earth behind and begin their search for the missing people on a space station called The Rim that orbits Earth?s moon. Their search takes them to various places on The Rim, and then to the moon itself, where they find the people they were looking for, but also begin to uncover secrets that they are not meant to know. They soon learn that their assignment will be anything but easy, as they are pitted against criminals, soldiers, and people employed by various law-enforcement agencies, while trying to unravel a larger conspiracy that they have suddenly learned they are a part of.
Machines
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Author : Abraham P. DeLeon
language : en
Publisher: IAP
Release Date : 2015-01-01
Machines written by Abraham P. DeLeon and has been published by IAP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-01 with Education categories.
This book is about machines: those that have been actualized, fantastical imaginal machines, to those deployed as metaphorical devices to describe complex social processes. Machines argues that they transcend time and space to emerge through a variety of spaces and places, times and histories and representations. They are such an integral fabric of daily reality that their disappearance would have immediate and dire consequences for the survival of humanity. They are part and parcel to our contemporary social order. From labor to social theory, art or consciousness, literature or television, to the asylums of the 19th century, machines are a central figure; an outgrowth of affective desire that seeks to transcend organic limitations of bodies that whither, age and die. Machines takes the reader on an intellectual, artistic, and theoretical journey, weaving an interdisciplinary tale of their emergence across social, cultural and artistic boundaries. With the deep engagement of various texts, Machines offers the reader moments of escape, alternative ways to envision technology for a future yet to materialize. Machines rejects the notion that technological innovations are indeed neutral, propelling us to think differently about those “things” created under specific economic or historical paradigms. Rethinking machines provides a rupture to our current technocratic impetus, shining a critical light on possible alternatives to our current reality. Let us sit back and take a journey through Machines, holding mechanical parts as guides to possible alternative futures.
Machines We Trust
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Author : Marcello Pelillo
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2021-08-24
Machines We Trust written by Marcello Pelillo and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-24 with Computers categories.
Experts from disciplines that range from computer science to philosophy consider the challenges of building AI systems that humans can trust. Artificial intelligence-based algorithms now marshal an astonishing range of our daily activities, from driving a car ("turn left in 400 yards") to making a purchase ("products recommended for you"). How can we design AI technologies that humans can trust, especially in such areas of application as law enforcement and the recruitment and hiring process? In this volume, experts from a range of disciplines discuss the ethical and social implications of the proliferation of AI systems, considering bias, transparency, and other issues. The contributors, offering perspectives from computer science, engineering, law, and philosophy, first lay out the terms of the discussion, considering the "ethical debts" of AI systems, the evolution of the AI field, and the problems of trust and trustworthiness in the context of AI. They go on to discuss specific ethical issues and present case studies of such applications as medicine and robotics, inviting us to shift the focus from the perspective of a "human-centered AI" to that of an "AI-decentered humanity." Finally, they consider the future of AI, arguing that, as we move toward a hybrid society of cohabiting humans and machines, AI technologies can become humanity's allies.
Reading Machines
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Author : Stephen Ramsay
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2011-12-01
Reading Machines written by Stephen Ramsay and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Besides familiar and now-commonplace tasks that computers do all the time, what else are they capable of? Stephen Ramsay's intriguing study of computational text analysis examines how computers can be used as "reading machines" to open up entirely new possibilities for literary critics. Computer-based text analysis has been employed for the past several decades as a way of searching, collating, and indexing texts. Despite this, the digital revolution has not penetrated the core activity of literary studies: interpretive analysis of written texts. Computers can handle vast amounts of data, allowing for the comparison of texts in ways that were previously too overwhelming for individuals, but they may also assist in enhancing the entirely necessary role of subjectivity in critical interpretation. Reading Machines discusses the importance of this new form of text analysis conducted with the assistance of computers. Ramsay suggests that the rigidity of computation can be enlisted in the project of intuition, subjectivity, and play.
Water
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Author : H. E. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Thistledown Press
Release Date : 2007
Water written by H. E. Taylor and has been published by Thistledown Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Fiction categories.
When all the animals are gone, and the world become a desert, where shall hope be found? After the extinctions, a post-human Métis woman reaches out in hope and encounters a strange and unexpected future. Billie Featherstone is one of few people to survive "the great extinction" thanks to a genetic mutation carried largely in the Metis population. Her skeleton is charged with Restart - a video game-like element for reanimating. She routinely patrols the biological war-plagued borders of her people's territory where extinctions abound, deserts spread, and post-humans struggle. Water is a solidly researched novel inspired by the mathematical extrapolation of the length of time a technological civilization can exist. From such thinking, Taylor creates a world of the future based on society's current environmental indifference.
Experience Machines
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Author : Mark Silcox
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-07-17
Experience Machines written by Mark Silcox and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-17 with Philosophy categories.
In his classic work Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick asked his readers to imagine being permanently plugged into a 'machine that would give you any experience you desired'. He speculated that, in spite of the many obvious attractions of such a prospect, most people would choose against passing the rest of their lives under the influence of this type of invention. Nozick thought (and many have since agreed) that this simple thought experiment had profound implications for how we think about ethics, political justice, and the significance of technology in our everyday lives. Nozick’s argument was made in 1974, about a decade before the personal computer revolution in Europe and North America. Since then, opportunities for the citizens of industrialized societies to experience virtual worlds and simulated environments have multiplied to an extent that no philosopher could have predicted. The authors in this volume re-evaluate the merits of Nozick’s argument, and use it as a jumping–off point for the philosophical examination of subsequent developments in culture and technology, including a variety of experience-altering cybernetic technologies such as computer games, social media networks, HCI devices, and neuro-prostheses.
The Dublin Review
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Author : Nicholas Patrick Wiseman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
The Dublin Review written by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with categories.
James May S Magnificent Machines
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Author : James May
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-03-01
James May S Magnificent Machines written by James May and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with Humor categories.
Our world has been transformed beyond recognition, particularly in the twentieth century, and so were our lives and our aspirations. Throughout James May's Magnificent Machines, our Top Gear guide explores the iconic themes of the past hundred years: flight, space travel, television, mechanised war, medicine, computers, electronic music, skyscrapers, electronic espionage and much more. But he also reveals the hidden story behind why some inventions like the Zeppelin, the hovercraft or the Theremin struggled to make their mark. He examines the tipping points - when technologies such as the car or the internet became unstoppable - and gets up close by looking at the nuts and bolts of remarkable inventions. Packed with surprising statistics and intriguing facts, this is the ideal book for anyone who wants to know how stuff works and why some stuff didn't make it.
