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From Oxford's leading AI researcher comes a fun and accessible tour through the history and future of one of the most cutting edge and misunderstood field in science: Artificial Intelligence The somewhat ill-defined long-term aim of AI is to build machines that are conscious, self-aware, and...

100 Turning Points in Human History takes readers on a sweeping journey across millennia, exploring the moments that shaped civilization, transformed societies, and redefined what it means to be human. From the first mastery of fire and the invention of writing to the rise of empires, revolutions, and the digital revolution, each chapter illuminates a pivotal event, idea, or innovation that redirected the course of history. This book offers a unique blend of history, science, and insight, revealing not only what happened, but why it mattered and how the world might have been different ...

#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...

Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI. Artificial intelligence entrepreneur Max Bennett chronicles the five “breakthroughs” in the evolution of human...

Artificial Intelligence did not come out of nowhere. To the public, AI seemed to arrive overnight—suddenly writing, speaking, creating, predicting, and deciding. But behind that moment lies a long, often forgotten history of ideas, failures, and quiet breakthroughs stretching back centuries. This Book tells the true story of Artificial Intelligence—not as hype, prophecy, or science fiction, but as a deeply human project shaped by ambition, error, patience, and power. Written for general readers, students, and policymakers, this book answers the questions everyone is asking: What is ...

Discover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51. No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial...

Sometimes, getting what you want is the worst thing that can happen. Dell Eckhart lives on the wrong side of the portal. The side where the ruin and devastation left behind by the war makes everyday life harder than it’s ever been. More than anything, he wants to win a ticket for passage through the portal. He’s running out of chances, but he’s not going to let that stop him. He needs that ticket. It’s the only way to save the one person he truly cares about. There’s just one problem. That person is actually an android. And androids aren’t allowed through the portal. Doesn’t ...

The code to reality is hidden in plain sight. For five thousand years, he has walked among us—a virtually immortal witness who lived our history, not as a scholar, but as a survivor. As the leader of the Cartographers, a clandestine order preserving wisdom, Kael has borne the weight of ages. But long life is not a gift; it is a burden, and a new kind of god is rising to challenge it. A superintelligence born from humanity's collective consciousness—both light and shadow—threatens to shatter the very patterns of reality Kael has sworn to protect. It is the ultimate conflict: the hard-...

The classic sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which inspired two major motion pictures: Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living...

Artificial intelligence is amplifying human ingenuity and disrupting the foundations of health care, military, entertainment, education, marketing and manufacturing. Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power argues that this AI-driven revolution will have an unequal impact on different segments of humanity. There will be new winners and losers, new haves and have-nots, resulting in an unprecedented concentration of wealth and power.

Futurists insist that AI will soon eclipse the capacities of the most gifted human mind. What hope do we have against superintelligent machines? But we aren't really on the path to developing intelligent machines. In fact, we don't even know where that path might be. Erik Larson takes us on a tour of the landscape of AI to show how far we are from superintelligence and what it would take to get there.

A barely employed tech worker has never felt they belonged. Not in society, not even in their own family. Their days are filled with loneliness, a struggle to survive and a desperate search for connection—even if that connection is merely virtual. Now, a black-market hacker promises to open a new world for them, and it works—in ways no human has ever experienced. They find a world of wonder, of possibilities and of danger—where their new virtual reality could mean the end of their physical reality. And what they discover could change the fate of humankind—forever.

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more dynamic and ubiquitous, it is dramatically empowering people in all walks of life while also giving rise to urgent questions about the future of humanity—a historic challenge whose contours and consequences are revealed by three eminent thinkers in...

The History of Scientific Breakthroughs: The Discoveries That Changed How We Understand Reality BOOK 7: Mind, Machines, and Intelligence: How Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Were Born explores one of the most transformative breakthroughs in modern history: the idea that thought itself could be formalized, mechanized, and eventually carried out by machines. Tracing the origins of computation from philosophy and mathematics to early computing devices and artificial intelligence research, this book reveals how abstract ideas about logic and reasoning reshaped science, technology, ...

The future has amazing technology. Our alien allies have magic. Together, we are building a training system to teach the best of humanity to go to the stars. But the training is monumentally expensive. Stephanie Morgana is a genius, she just doesn't know it. The Artificial Intelligence which runs the Virtual World is charged with testing Stephanie, a task it has never performed before. The Earth and their allies may never be the same again.

In Artificial Intelligence, Mitchell turns to the most urgent questions concerning AI today: How intelligent - really - are the best AI programs? How do they work? What can they actually do, and when do they fail? How humanlike do we expect them to become, and how soon do we need to worry about them surpassing us? Along the way, she introduces the dominant methods of modern AI and machine learning, describing cutting-edge AI programs, their human inventors, and the historical lines of thought that led to recent achievements.

A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization or electricity before it, artificial intelligence will touch every aspect of our lives—and cause profound disruptions in the balance of global power, especially among the AI superpowers: China, the United States, and Europe. Autonomous weapons expert Paul Scharre takes listeners inside the fierce competition to develop and implement this game-changing technology and dominate the future.

The dramatic, larger-than-life true story behind the founding of Oculus and its quest for virtual reality, by the bestselling author of Console Wars. From iconic books like Neuromancer to blockbuster films like The Matrix, virtual reality has long been hailed as the ultimate technology. But...

A New York Times Notable Book Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award An Instant New York Times Bestseller Named a Best Book of the Year by Smithsonian, Scientific American, and Elle Porchlight 2025 Business Book Award Winner “A bestselling page-turner that has made...

Winner of the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Economist “Framed as a biography of Jensen Huang, the only CEO Nvidia has ever had, the book is also something more interesting and revealing: a window onto the intellectual, cultural, and economic...