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Convergent evolution on earth :lessons for the search for extraterrestrial life
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- 9780262354172
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- 1 online resource (328 pages).
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Cyber republic :reinventing democracy in the age of intelligent machines
"Cyber Republic presents a radical framework for rethinking politics and business in a post-work age of human-machine collaboration. It offers an optimistic and democratic roadmap for the future"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026236011X
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American trip :set, setting, and the psychedelic experience in the Twentieth …
"Do drugs produce fixed, predictable effects or are their effects a product of society and culture? American Trip explores this question, presenting the most comprehensive description of mid-twentieth-century hallucinogenic drug research thus far. American Trip follows seven different mid-twentieth-century schools of psychedelic research including the military, the psychotherapeutic, the spirit…
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- 0262358956
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How to be human in the digital economy
An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy. In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and cashiers can be automated out of employment; so can surgeons, airline pilots, and cab drivers. Machines will be able to do these jobs more efficiently, accurately, and inexpensively. But, Nicholas Agar warns in this provocative book, these developm…
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- 9780262349154
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- 1 online resource (232 pages).
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Interactive task learning :humans, robots, and agents acquiring new tasks thr…
Experts from a range of disciplines explore how humans and artificial agents can quickly learn completely new tasks through natural interactions with each other. Humans are not limited to a fixed set of innate or preprogrammed tasks. We learn quickly through language and other forms of natural interaction, and we improve our performance and teach others what we have learned. Understanding the m…
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- 9780262349420
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- 1 online resource (344 pages) :illustrations.
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Butch heroes
Katherina Hetzeldorfer, tried "for a crime that didn't have a name" (same sex sexual relations) and sentenced to death by drowning in 1477; Charles aka Mary Hamilton, publicly whipped for impersonating a man in eighteenth-century England; Clara, aka "Big Ben," over whom two jealous women fought in 1926 New York: these are just three of the lives that the artist Ria Brodell has reclaimed for que…
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- 9780262349956
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 79 pages) :color illustrations.
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Making open development inclusive :lessons from IDRC research
Drawing on ten years of empirical work and research, analyses of how open development has played out in practice. A decade ago, a significant trend toward openness emerged in international development. "Open development" can describe initiatives as disparate as open government, open health data, open science, open education, and open innovation. The theory was that open systems related to data,…
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Algorithms are not enough :creating general artificial intelligence
"The holy grail of artificial intelligence research has been the achievement of artificial general intelligence. Since the inception of artificial intelligence, machines that can perform any task that a human might have been predicted to be imminent. Some people have been enthusiastic about this prospect, but others have been terrified. Both have been disappointed. In fact, despite all of the p…
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Playing smart :on games, intelligence and artificial intelligence
Can games measure intelligence? How will artificial intelligence inform games of the future? In 'Playing Smart', Julian Togelius explores the connections between games and intelligence to offer a new vision of future games and game design. Video games already depend on AI. We use games to test AI algorithms, challenge our thinking, and better understand both natural and artificial intelligence.…
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The AI advantage :how to put the artificial intelligence revolution to work
Thomas Davenport offers a guide to using artificial intelligence in business. He describes what technologies are available and how companies can use them for business benefits and competitive advantage. He cuts through the hype of the AI craze - remember when it seemed plausible that IBM's Watson could cure cancer? - to explain how businesses can put artificial intelligence to work now, in the …
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