Bestsellers
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The Coming Wave
- Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
- By: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar - contributor
- Narrated by: Mustafa Suleyman
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman warns of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and tells us how we might contain them while we have the chance.
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Click bait
- By Buyer on 09-11-23
By: Mustafa Suleyman, and others
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The Extinction of Experience
- Being Human in a Disembodied World
- By: Christine Rosen
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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A reflective, original invitation to recover and cultivate the human experiences that have atrophied in our virtual world.
By: Christine Rosen
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- By: Steven Levy
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers - those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks....
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Remember Why You Got Into Computing
- By Dan Collins on 07-01-16
By: Steven Levy
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Digital Minimalism
- Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- By: Cal Newport
- Narrated by: Will Damron, Cal Newport
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in a noisy world. Author Cal Newport introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives....
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Disappointing
- By Aaron on 04-15-19
By: Cal Newport
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The Unplugged Hours
- Cultivating a Life of Presence in a Digitally Connected World
- By: Hannah Brencher
- Narrated by: Hannah Brencher
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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No matter what you do for a living, how much time your apps save you, or how much entertainment your phone brings, it is possible to unplug—and find an even better life on the other side.
By: Hannah Brencher
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How to Raise a Healthy Gamer
- End Power Struggles, Break Bad Screen Habits, and Transform Your Relationship with Your Kids
- By: Alok Kanojia MD MPH
- Narrated by: Alok Kanojia MD MPH
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A former gamer and Harvard-trained psychiatrist offers a proven, tested plan to help parents define, set, and reinforce healthy boundaries around video games and help kids who have developed an addiction to gaming....
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not the target audience but
- By nick on 03-13-24
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The Coming Wave
- Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
- By: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar - contributor
- Narrated by: Mustafa Suleyman
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman warns of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and tells us how we might contain them while we have the chance.
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Click bait
- By Buyer on 09-11-23
By: Mustafa Suleyman, and others
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The Extinction of Experience
- Being Human in a Disembodied World
- By: Christine Rosen
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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A reflective, original invitation to recover and cultivate the human experiences that have atrophied in our virtual world.
By: Christine Rosen
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- By: Steven Levy
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers - those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks....
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Remember Why You Got Into Computing
- By Dan Collins on 07-01-16
By: Steven Levy
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Digital Minimalism
- Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- By: Cal Newport
- Narrated by: Will Damron, Cal Newport
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in a noisy world. Author Cal Newport introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives....
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Disappointing
- By Aaron on 04-15-19
By: Cal Newport
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The Unplugged Hours
- Cultivating a Life of Presence in a Digitally Connected World
- By: Hannah Brencher
- Narrated by: Hannah Brencher
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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No matter what you do for a living, how much time your apps save you, or how much entertainment your phone brings, it is possible to unplug—and find an even better life on the other side.
By: Hannah Brencher
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How to Raise a Healthy Gamer
- End Power Struggles, Break Bad Screen Habits, and Transform Your Relationship with Your Kids
- By: Alok Kanojia MD MPH
- Narrated by: Alok Kanojia MD MPH
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A former gamer and Harvard-trained psychiatrist offers a proven, tested plan to help parents define, set, and reinforce healthy boundaries around video games and help kids who have developed an addiction to gaming....
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not the target audience but
- By nick on 03-13-24
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Supremacy
- AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
- By: Parmy Olson
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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In November 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. Parmy Olson uses her experience covering technology to bring to light the exploitation of the greatest invention in human history, and how it will impact us all.
By: Parmy Olson
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The Alignment Problem
- Machine Learning and Human Values
- By: Brian Christian
- Narrated by: Brian Christian
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us - and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases.
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Required reading for any AI course
- By ehan ferguson on 11-16-20
By: Brian Christian
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The Singularity Is Near
- When Humans Transcend Biology
- By: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best....
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RUINED audio.
- By Fred on 06-25-21
By: Ray Kurzweil
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Scary Smart
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
- By: Mo Gawdat
- Narrated by: Mo Gawdat
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Scary Smart is an insider look at the future not only of technology and AI, but of our species, together with an accessible blueprint for what we can do to safeguard ourselves, those we love and the planet itself....
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Nothing but fluff.
- By Anonymous User on 07-30-23
By: Mo Gawdat
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Artificial Intelligence
- A Guide for Thinking Humans
- By: Melanie Mitchell
- Narrated by: Abby Craden, Melanie Mitchell, Tony Wolf
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Interweaving stories about the science and the people behind it, Artificial Intelligence brims with clear-sighted, captivating, and approachable accounts of the most interesting and provocative modern work in AI, flavored with Mitchell’s humor and personal observations....
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Start understanding AI right here!
- By Chad M. on 01-26-20
By: Melanie Mitchell
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The Art of Invisibility
- The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
- By: Kevin Mitnick, Robert Vamosi, Mikko Hypponen
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin Mitnick illustrates what is happening without your knowledge - and he teaches you "the art of invisibility"....
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Limited value for the average person
- By James C on 10-14-17
By: Kevin Mitnick, and others
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Quantum Supremacy
- How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything
- By: Michio Kaku
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The bestselling author of The God Equation takes an exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may supercharge artificial intelligence, solve some of humanity's biggest problems, like global warming, world hunger, and incurable disease.
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Title should have been “Quantum Global Warming”
- By Amazon Customer on 06-08-23
By: Michio Kaku
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Glow Kids
- How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance
- By: Nicholas Kardaras PhD
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In Glow Kids, Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will examine how technology - more specifically, age-inappropriate screen tech, with all of its glowing ubiquity - has profoundly affected the brains of an entire generation....
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Fear Mongering - a modern day Mazes and Monsters
- By Veronica on 11-03-20
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
- By: Shoshana Zuboff
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. It offers a reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization....
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Book Editors failed to trim the word count
- By Todd B on 07-14-19
By: Shoshana Zuboff
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The Opt-Out Family
- How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't
- By: Erin Loechner
- Narrated by: Lisa Larsen
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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The Opt-Out Family unveils compelling research and startling insights from Erin Loechner's experiences as a social media trailblazer and former influencer, as well as practical and creative ways to transform your family's relationship with today's ever-evolving technology....
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Narrator Sounds like AI
- By ghfecx on 06-17-24
By: Erin Loechner
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Stealing Fire
- How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
- By: Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving....
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Very disappointing. Not what it promises to be.
- By R8r on 03-18-17
By: Steven Kotler, and others
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Nexus
- Une brève histoire des réseaux d'information, de l'âge de pierre à l'intelligence artificielle
- By: Yuval Noah Harari, David Fauquemberg
- Narrated by: Philippe Sollier
- Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Les histoires nous ont réunis. Les livres ont diffusé nos idées et nos mythologies. Internet nous a promis le savoir infini. Les algorithmes ont découvert nos secrets
By: Yuval Noah Harari, and others
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AI Snake Oil
- What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
- By: Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
- Narrated by: Landon Woodson
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor reveal what you need to know about AI—and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products.
By: Arvind Narayanan, and others
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Filterworld
- How Algorithms Flattened Culture
- By: Kyle Chayka
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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From trendy restaurants to city grids, to TikTok and Netflix feeds the world round, algorithmic recommendations dictate our experiences and choices....
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This should be a short blog post, not a book
- By Amazon Customer on 02-22-24
By: Kyle Chayka
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The Cyber Effect
- A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behavior Changes Online
- By: Mary Aiken PhD
- Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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A groundbreaking exploration of how cyberspace is changing the way we think, feel, and behave....
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Interesting but sometimes biased
- By S. Yates on 11-06-16
By: Mary Aiken PhD
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Superconvergence
- How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World
- By: Jamie Metzl
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster, Jamie Metzl
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Leading futurist and OneShared.World founder Jamie Metzl explores how genome sequencing, gene editing, artificial intelligence, and other technologies are not only changing our lives, but catalyzing each other in radical and accelerating ways.
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Great Book Somewhat Spoiled by Self-Promotion
- By Jack E. Koepke on 06-22-24
By: Jamie Metzl
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The Sirens' Call
- How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
- By: Chris Hayes
- Narrated by: Chris Hayes
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Hayes argues that we are in the midst of an epoch-defining transition whose only parallel is what happened to labor in the nineteenth century: attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us, and from which we are increasingly alienated.
By: Chris Hayes
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The AI Playbook
- Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment (Management on the Cutting Edge)
- By: Eric Siegel
- Narrated by: Eric Siegel
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In his bestselling first book, Eric Siegel explained how machine learning works. Now, in The AI Playbook, he shows how to capitalize on it.
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Basic book not worth time
- By Kindle Customer on 04-16-24
By: Eric Siegel
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Everybody Lies
- Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
- By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Steven Pinker - foreword
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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By the end of on average day in the early 21st century, human beings searching the Internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data....
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Leave out the politics please
- By Shane Hampson on 02-20-20
By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, and others
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The Atomic Human
- What Makes Us Unique in the Age of AI
- By: Neil D. Lawrence
- Narrated by: Neil D. Lawrence
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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A renowned computer scientist seeks the distinctive human quality that will prevail against artificial intelligence.
By: Neil D. Lawrence
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The Age of AI
- And Our Human Future
- By: Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher
- Narrated by: Eric Pollins
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human society - and what this technology means for us all....
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Little Substantive Value
- By Tennisartist85 on 11-12-21
By: Henry A. Kissinger, and others
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Unmasking AI
- My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
- By: Joy Buolamwini
- Narrated by: Joy Buolamwini
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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To most of us, it seems like recent developments in artificial intelligence emerged out of nowhere to pose unprecedented threats to humankind. But to Dr. Joy Buolamwini, who has been at the forefront of AI research, this moment has been a long time in the making.
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It’s time we boundary AI
- By Amazon Customer on 09-02-24
By: Joy Buolamwini
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The Master Algorithm
- How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
- By: Pedro Domingos
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Under the aegis of machine learning in our data-driven machine age, computers are programming themselves and solving an extraordinary range of problems....
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Great book, irritating narration
- By N. G. PEPIN on 09-24-15
By: Pedro Domingos
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Super Pumped
- The Battle for Uber
- By: Mike Isaac
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Mike Isaac
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a pause-resisting story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior....
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A forced narrative and a bad version of Bad Blood
- By Benji on 09-09-19
By: Mike Isaac
New releases
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The Extinction of Experience
- Being Human in a Disembodied World
- By: Christine Rosen
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Extinction of Experience, Christine Rosen investigates the cultural and emotional shifts that accompany our embrace of technology. In warm, philosophical prose, Rosen reveals key human experiences at risk of going extinct, including face-to-face communication, sense of place, authentic emotion, and even boredom. Considering cultural trends, like TikTok challenges and mukbang, and politically unsettling phenomena, like sociometric trackers and online conspiracy culture, Rosen exposes an unprecedented shift in the human condition, one that habituates us to alienation and control.
By: Christine Rosen
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The Unplugged Hours
- Cultivating a Life of Presence in a Digitally Connected World
- By: Hannah Brencher
- Narrated by: Hannah Brencher
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In the spring of 2021, Hannah Brencher found herself depleted and exhausted—and she knew the culprit was her constantly plugged-in lifestyle. Like so many of us, Hannah had been turning to her phone to cope with life in a time of isolation and uncertainty. Those coping mechanisms had calcified into habits she didn't know how to break. Sound familiar? That's when the nudge happened. Turn off your phone and keep turning off your phone. In The Unplugged Hours, Hannah demonstrates how the act of powering down changed her entire life.
By: Hannah Brencher
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The Atomic Human
- What Makes Us Unique in the Age of AI
- By: Neil D. Lawrence
- Narrated by: Neil D. Lawrence
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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If artificial intelligence takes over decision-making what, then, is unique and irreplaceable about human intelligence? The Atomic Human is a journey of discovery to the core of what it is to be human, in search of the qualities that cannot be replaced by the machine. Neil Lawrence brings a timely, fresh perspective to this new era, recounting his personal journey to understand the riddle of intelligence. By contrasting our own intelligence with the capabilities of machine intelligence through history, The Atomic Human reveals the technical origins, capabilities, and limitations of AI systems.
By: Neil D. Lawrence
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Supremacy
- AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
- By: Parmy Olson
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In November 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scenes, battles for control and prestige between the world’s two leading AI firms, OpenAI and DeepMind, who now steers Google's AI efforts, has remained elusive—until now.
By: Parmy Olson
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The Mind's Mirror
- Risk and Reward in the Age of AI
- By: Daniela Rus, Gregory Mone
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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As advances in AI spark fear and confusion, The Mind’s Mirror reminds us that in spite of the very real and pressing challenges, AI is a force with enormous potential to improve human life. Computer scientist and AI researcher Daniela Rus, along with science writer Gregory Mone, offers an expert perspective as a leader in the field who has witnessed many technological hype cycles. Rus and Mone illustrate the ways in which AI can help us become more productive, knowledgeable, creative, insightful, and even empathetic, as well as the many risks associated with misuse.
By: Daniela Rus, and others
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Distracted
- A Philosophy of Cars and Phones
- By: Robert Rosenberger
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Rosenberger brings together ideas from philosophy and cognitive science to leverage a postphenomenological perspective that reveals how our smartphones make us such bad drivers. Reviewing decades of empirical studies in cognitive science, he shows that we have developed habits of perception regarding our compulsive technology use—habits that may wrest our attention away from the road.
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The Extinction of Experience
- Being Human in a Disembodied World
- By: Christine Rosen
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Extinction of Experience, Christine Rosen investigates the cultural and emotional shifts that accompany our embrace of technology. In warm, philosophical prose, Rosen reveals key human experiences at risk of going extinct, including face-to-face communication, sense of place, authentic emotion, and even boredom. Considering cultural trends, like TikTok challenges and mukbang, and politically unsettling phenomena, like sociometric trackers and online conspiracy culture, Rosen exposes an unprecedented shift in the human condition, one that habituates us to alienation and control.
By: Christine Rosen
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The Unplugged Hours
- Cultivating a Life of Presence in a Digitally Connected World
- By: Hannah Brencher
- Narrated by: Hannah Brencher
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In the spring of 2021, Hannah Brencher found herself depleted and exhausted—and she knew the culprit was her constantly plugged-in lifestyle. Like so many of us, Hannah had been turning to her phone to cope with life in a time of isolation and uncertainty. Those coping mechanisms had calcified into habits she didn't know how to break. Sound familiar? That's when the nudge happened. Turn off your phone and keep turning off your phone. In The Unplugged Hours, Hannah demonstrates how the act of powering down changed her entire life.
By: Hannah Brencher
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The Atomic Human
- What Makes Us Unique in the Age of AI
- By: Neil D. Lawrence
- Narrated by: Neil D. Lawrence
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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If artificial intelligence takes over decision-making what, then, is unique and irreplaceable about human intelligence? The Atomic Human is a journey of discovery to the core of what it is to be human, in search of the qualities that cannot be replaced by the machine. Neil Lawrence brings a timely, fresh perspective to this new era, recounting his personal journey to understand the riddle of intelligence. By contrasting our own intelligence with the capabilities of machine intelligence through history, The Atomic Human reveals the technical origins, capabilities, and limitations of AI systems.
By: Neil D. Lawrence
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Supremacy
- AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
- By: Parmy Olson
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In November 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scenes, battles for control and prestige between the world’s two leading AI firms, OpenAI and DeepMind, who now steers Google's AI efforts, has remained elusive—until now.
By: Parmy Olson
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The Mind's Mirror
- Risk and Reward in the Age of AI
- By: Daniela Rus, Gregory Mone
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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As advances in AI spark fear and confusion, The Mind’s Mirror reminds us that in spite of the very real and pressing challenges, AI is a force with enormous potential to improve human life. Computer scientist and AI researcher Daniela Rus, along with science writer Gregory Mone, offers an expert perspective as a leader in the field who has witnessed many technological hype cycles. Rus and Mone illustrate the ways in which AI can help us become more productive, knowledgeable, creative, insightful, and even empathetic, as well as the many risks associated with misuse.
By: Daniela Rus, and others
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Distracted
- A Philosophy of Cars and Phones
- By: Robert Rosenberger
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Rosenberger brings together ideas from philosophy and cognitive science to leverage a postphenomenological perspective that reveals how our smartphones make us such bad drivers. Reviewing decades of empirical studies in cognitive science, he shows that we have developed habits of perception regarding our compulsive technology use—habits that may wrest our attention away from the road.