"New genomic studies on ancient remains are unveiling different forms of inequality that were prevalent in the past and have shaped the genomes of humankind"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Is AI a force for ill or for good? How does it work? This book analyzes the potential of AI in many sectors, including global security"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Based on his decades of experience working with newborn chicks and other species, Vallortigara gives us a clear and accessible account of behaviors that are considered to be innate or instinctive"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"An honest attempt to compare and analyze the intelligence of humans, animals, and computers by an eminent cognitive scientist and long-time Press author"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The book explores the origin story of the Open Government Partnership and place the open government reform movement in the context of the long history of public sector reform"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"An examination of the role and impact of lockdown drills in America's schools, including consideration of arguments for and against these practices"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The power of the ever-increasing tools and algorithms for prediction and their paradoxical effects on risk. The Age of Prediction is about two powerful, and symbiotic, trends: the rapid development and use of artificial intelligence and big data to enhance prediction, as well as the often paradoxical effects of these better predictions on our understanding of risk and the ways we live. Beginnin…
"This book represents a new approach to language acquisition and to variable properties in language. By taking a novel approach in allowing for an account of the acquisition of variable properties of language and a biologically plausible treatment of language variation, Lightfoot argues against the use of binary parameters, for the centrality of parsing in language acquisition, and for the "ope…
"An argument for a novel binarity constraint on merge, preventing syntactic movement from relating more than two distinct positions at one time"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A clear-eyed look at how AI can complement (rather than eliminate) human jobs, with real-world examples from companies that range from Netflix to Walmart. Descriptions of AI's possible effects on businesses and their employees cycle between utopian hype and alarmist doomsaying. This book from MIT Sloan Management Review avoids both these extremes, providing instead a clear-eyed look at how AI c…