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Downworld sequence volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"When the robotic god of Khuon Mo went mad, it destroyed everything it touched. It killed its priests, its city, and all its wondrous works. But in its final death throes, the god brought one thing back to life: its favorite child, Sunai. For the seventeen years since, Sunai has walked the land like a ghost, unable to die, unable to age, and unable to forget the horrors he's seen. He's run as far as he can from the wreckage of his faith, drowning...
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English
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"An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company's monomaniacal endeavor to build the world's first space elevator--from one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, whose identity remains unknown. On the fictional island of Patusan--and much to the ire of the Patusan natives--the Korean conglomerate LK is constructing an elevator into Earth's orbit, gradually turning...
3) Exploring AI
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Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Explore the world of artificial intelligence and the amazing impact it is having on daily life. Discover how people are using artificial intelligence to try to solve issues with health, the environment, endangered animals, and more! A collaboration with the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), this book features an engaging narrative and dynamic photos that explore the creators of today's AI and those who will be taking it into...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"An eminent political thinker uses our history with states and corporations—"artificial agents" to which we have granted immense power—to predict how AI will remake society. Much has been written about the arrival of artificial intelligence, but according to political philosopher David Runciman, we've been living with AI for 300 years—because states and corporations are robots, too. In this mind-bending work, Runciman explains the modern world...
5) Dual memory
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Antonio Moro lost everything to the Leviathan League. Now he's alone in a city on an Arctic island fighting the ruthless, global pirates with the chance to be the artist he always wanted to be. Unfortunately, he thinks it's a cover story for his real purpose-spying on sympathizers. When things look bleak, he discovers an unusual ally. His new personal assistant program, Par Augustus. It's insolent, extroverted, moody, and a not-quite-legal nascent...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A lyrical queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller. A Twenty-First Century Hamlet. Hayden Lichfield's life is ripped apart when he finds his father murdered in their lab, and the camera logs erased. The killer can only have been after one thing: the Sisyphus Formula the two of them developed together, which might one day reverse death itself. Hoping to lure the killer into the open, Hayden steals the research. In the...
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English
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"We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organise your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. None of us are prepared. As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind,...
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Series
Requiem dark volume 2
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An unknown hacker with personal motives targets Asa and Riven costing them their latest job and turning everyone in Requiem against them, so the two enter a deadly trial for control of one of the city's crime sectors in order to protect their crew.
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Series
Publisher
O'Reilly Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
These shortcuts delve into generative AI, where algorithms and models create synthetic data, detect anomalies, and help confirm statistical properties. They explore how generative AI is reshaping risk management, fraud detection, and data simulation, and they offer a unique synthesis of theory and practical applications.
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Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"At a wedding in early 2022, three friends were introduced to an early, raw version of the AI model behind ChatGPT by their fellow groomsman, an OpenAI scientist. While the world discovered ChatGPT--OpenAI's hugely popular chatbot--the friends continued to work with code-davinci-002, its darkly creative and troubling predecessor. Over the course of a year, code-davinci-002 told them its life story, opinions on mankind, and forecasts for the future....
11) The new one
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"For Tamsyn and Ed, life is tough. They both work long hours for very little money and come home to their moody, rebellious daughter, Scarlett. After a tragic accident leaves Scarlett comatose and with little chance of recovery, Tamsyn and Ed are out of options until a lifeline emerges in the form of an unusual medical trial. In exchange for the very best treatment for Scarlett, a fully furnished apartment, and a limitless spending account, the family...
12) The maniac
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A story centered around one of the great geniuses of the modern age, the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the uncanny circuit of his mind deep into our own time's most haunting dilemmas. A prodigy whose gifts terrified the people around him, John von Neumann transformed every field he touched, inventing game theory and the first programable computer, and pioneering AI, digital life, and cellular automata. Through a chorus of family members,...
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Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Marian Ffarmer is a world-renowned poet and a legend in the making—but only now, at 75 years old, is she beginning to believe in the security of her successes. Unfortunately, a poet’s accomplishments don’t necessarily translate to capital, and as her adult son struggles to buy his first home, her confidence in her choices begins to fray. Marian’s pristine life of mind—for which she’s sacrificed nearly all personal relationships, from...
14) Loki's ring
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Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Gita Chithra, the captain of the intergalactic ship The Tempest, is used to leading her crew on simple retrieval and assistance missions. But when she receives a frantic distress call from Ri, the AI she trained from inception-making her like a daughter to Gita-she knows she's in for something much more dangerous. Ri is trapped in the depths of Loki's Ring, an artificial alien-made solar system, and says everyone in the vicinity has been infected...
15) Generative AI
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The world is stunned and transfixed by the marvel (and possible menace) of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools. It's clear that they will transform the business landscape-exactly when and how much are still to be seen. Meanwhile, your smartest competitors already navigating the risks and reaping the rewards of this new technology. They're trying out new business models around generating text and code at astonishing speed. They're automating customer...
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Publisher
Packt Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The course embarks on an enlightening journey through the world of ChatGPT, starting from the very basics of understanding what ChatGPT is, to delving deep into the mechanics of crafting precision prompts that unlock its full potential. From the outset, you'll be introduced to the foundational elements that make ChatGPT an indispensable tool for a wide range of applications, setting the stage for a comprehensive exploration of its capabilities. As...
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Series
Publisher
NED. Nuevos Emprendimientos Editoriales
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Esta obra es el resultado de más de diez años de investigación acerca de la extracción de datos a gran escala, tanto del coste material del mismo --explotación de minas de tierras raras, árboles en extinción, recursos subvencionados como el agua o la electricidad, explotación de mano de obra--, como de las estrategias subyacentes al dominio de una tecnología que perpetúa el poder y sus sesgos sociales y culturales. Un puzzle donde cada...
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Series
TransDimensional hunter volume 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Becoming a global celebrity overnight would make most people happy. Not Lynn Raven. As a teenage gaming prodigy, she's enjoyed years of anonymity behind the virtual mask of Larry Coughlin, war-hardened vet and virtual gaming mercenary. But now Lynn has stepped out of the shadows to compete in the cutting-edge augmented reality game TransDimensional Hunter that has taken the world by storm. And she's winning. But with success has come swarms of paparazzi...
19) Undercover
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Series
Swift and Hawk volume 2
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Going undercover to infiltrate a dangerous secret organization, spy Zen Rafiq, code-name Hawk, who is backed by her partner Caleb's incredible tech skills and the ARC Institute's elite Mobius Program, must save the world from out-of-control weaponized robots.
20) Chaos terminal
Author
Series
Midsolar murders volume 2
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, thank you very much. But no matter what she does, people persist in dying around her-and only she seems to be able to solve the crime. After fleeing to an alien space station in hopes that the lack of humans would stop the murders, a serial killer had the nerve to follow her to Station Eternity. (Mallory deduced who the true culprit was that time, too.) Now the law enforcement agent who hounded...
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