Computer Intelligence

"Exciting and brilliantly reported . . . Roose makes the technology understandable while also conveying the historic nature of a new world being born." —Walter Isaacson, author of Elon Musk A New York Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026 This is the story of the twenty-first...

AI expert and journalist Garrison Lovely’s debut is a refreshing reset on an AI debate in which basically everyone is getting some big things wrong. With deep access to top researchers, advocates, and industry insiders, Obsolete offers a new way to think about the technology and a plan for deciding its future democratically.

Humanity in the age of AI How will we be changed by the rise of artificial intelligence? In this scintillating essay, Anna Goldsworthy argues that AI is a rupture that makes us confront what it is to be human – what we do, and want. As it learns human ways, AI raises big questions about work, leisure and education. It brings new existential, social and ethical risks. Above all, it invites us to consider what is irreplaceable in us, starting with the body and the friction of others. The God We Made is a brilliant inquiry into identity and a transformed future.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. “Strikingly original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly...

From the author of prescient best seller and classic Reclaiming Conversation, Sherry Turkle, comes an urgent warning about how our ever-increasing reliance on human-like AI chatbots is eroding our capacity for empathy, caring, and the very qualities that make us human. If social media came for...

The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of...

An AI expert reveals the transformative potential of artificial intelligence to usher in a new era of scientific discovery. “Compelling … Quite useful in pondering the big questions about our shared frontier.” —Forbes A National Bestseller Researchers are publishing more papers than ever...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller One of NPR's Best Books of the Year Nominated for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year From one of our leading chroniclers of the intersection of innovation and capitalism, a landmark reckoning—based on unprecedented access—with one of...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.”—Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta “Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.”—Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla The great...

Gray Wolf LEGACY has handled a lot of strange cases in their day but this one is completely out of the realm of their understanding. It requires skills that only a select few possess. When an A.I. machine is created by a man who wants vengeance, even he doesn’t realize how powerful it really is. As it grows, developing into something beyond their comprehension, the world is at a standstill. Anything run by a computer is compromised. The more you attempt to stop the machine, the more it records and remembers. Now, the machine has killed its developer and the geniuses of LEGACY must ban ...

Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. If machine brains surpassed human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become extremely powerful - possibly beyond our control.

This book offers an overview of computer science from a perspective that is accessible to those without an extensive technical background. While the field of computer science encompasses a vast array of complex topics and applications, this work endeavors to present these concepts in a clear and approachable manner. Through the exploration of various aspects of computer science, readers will gain a foundational understanding of this rapidly-evolving field, even in the absence of prior experience or technical expertise. This literary work is not intended to serve as a technical reference or ...

Every Monday morning, you open a blank chat window and explain the same thing all over again. The report format. The client's name. The tone you want. By next Monday, the AI has forgotten everything you taught it. Again. You've read the prompt guides. You've collected the clever phrasing tricks that promise to hand your evenings back. Some worked, for an afternoon. Then Monday came around and you were back at zero, rebriefing from scratch, because a clever sentence is not a system. It's a note you write yourself and throw away.

Die atemberaubende Insider-Story über den Wettlauf zu einer Superintelligenz, die die Welt verändern wird Als Tech-Kolumnist der New York Times mit Sitz in San Francisco hat Kevin Roose die KI-Revolution aus der ersten Reihe miterlebt: Sein Bericht darüber, wie der Bing Chatbot von Microsoft versuchte, seine Ehe zu sabotieren, ging um die ganze Welt. Sein neues Buch ist der Insider-Bericht von dem entscheidenden Moment in der Menschheitsgeschichte, an dem eine Handvoll Leute eine sehr mächtige KI ins Leben riefen.

Daniel Suarez’s New York Times bestselling debut high-tech thriller is “so frightening even the government has taken note” (Entertainment Weekly). Daemons: computer programs that silently run in the background, waiting for a specific event or time to execute. They power almost every...

As artificial intelligence reshapes the world, this bold book asks the urgent question: How do we embrace technology without losing our humanity —or our faith? Artificial intelligence is no longer the future. It’s now.

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Evenhanded and insightful.” —Publisher’s Weekly (starred review) “An accessible, often fascinating primer.... Essential, illuminating reading.” —Kirkus From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Digital Doctor comes an engaging, clear-eyed...

Jeff Hawkins, the man who created the PalmPilot, Treo smart phone, and other handheld devices, has reshaped our relationship to computers. Now he stands ready to revolutionize both neuroscience and computing in one stroke, with a new understanding of intelligence itself.

In Level Seven, the exciting culmination of the Killday series, AIs strive to evolve into a super intelligence and might destroy humanity in that pursuit. But could their hopes of achieving godhood actually lie with the nearly extinct humans they intend to eradicate?