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Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Artificial Intelligence is a disruptive technology across business and society. There are three long-term trends driving this AI revolution: the emergence of Big Data, the creation of cheaper and more powerful computers, and development of better algorithms for processing an learning from data. Deep learning is the subfield of Artificial Intelligence that focuses on creating large neural network models that are capable of making accurate data driven...
2) Algorithms
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This book is an introduction to algorithms targeting an audience with little to no computer science background. In this book, algorithms from a wide area are presented: from music to searching and sorting, to deep learning, to graphs. The author shows how algorithms are used in practice. A unique feature of the book is that it focuses on showing how algorithms really work; not just what algorithms can do. There are many books discussing that and...
3) Cynicism
Author
Publisher
MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In this volume of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Ansgar Allen charts the long history of cynicism, from the "fearless speech" of Greek Cynics in the fourth century BCE to the contemporary cynic's lack of social and political convictions. Allen describes ancient Cynicism as an improvised philosophy and a way of life disposed to scandalize contemporaries, subjecting their cultural commitments to derision. He chronicles the subsequent "purification"...
4) Placebos
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"How the underlying biology of the "placebo effect" works and how could this change the way we think about modern and future medicine"--
5) Robot ethics
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A concise overview of the ethical issues that are likely to emerge as robots become more social and more integrated into human life"--
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