Philosophy Machine

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    • The Emptiness of the Machine
    • By: André Cancian
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-25
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • A bold philosophical defense of existential nihilism based on modern science. * * * When we imagine a machine, the result is always something close...

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    • How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
    • By: Andy Clark
    • Narrated by: Andy Clark
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • For as long as we’ve studied human cognition, we’ve believed that our senses give us direct access to the world. What we see is what’s really there—or so the thinking goes. But new discoveries in neuroscience and psychology have turned this assumption on its head....

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    • Machine Learning and Human Values
    • By: Brian Christian
    • Narrated by: Brian Christian
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.7 out of 5 stars 926 ratings
    • 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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    • The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
    • By: John Markoff
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.2 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • In Machines of Loving Grace, John Markoff offers a sweeping history of the complicated and evolving relationship between humans and computers....

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    • How Irrationality Created Modern Science
    • By: Michael Strevens
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science....

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    • Paths, Dangers, Strategies
    • By: Nick Bostrom
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.1 out of 5 stars 4,383 ratings
    • Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life....

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    • When Humans Transcend Biology
    • By: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 467 ratings
    • 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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    • The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
    • By: Venki Ramakrishnan
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.2 out of 5 stars 653 ratings
    • Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome....

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    • A Groundbreaking Dialogue Between Human and Machine
    • By: Sar Maroof
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-25
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Humans have never faced a species more intelligent than themselves. But this is about to change, because we have created AI—a form of ...

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    • Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
    • By: Cathy O'Neil
    • Narrated by: Cathy O'Neil
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.4 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool: When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or predatory corporations, we reinforce values of fairness and justice. But as Cathy O’Neil argues in this revelatory book, shaming has taken a new and dangerous turn....

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    • By: Max Tegmark
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.7 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • We stand at the beginning of a new era. What was once science fiction is fast becoming reality, as AI transforms war, crime, justice, jobs and society....

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    • Navigating the Ethical Frontier Today and Beyond
    • By: Dr. Julie E. Mehan
    • Narrated by: Emma Newman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-25
    • Language: English
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    • This book presents a timely and significant addition to the ongoing discourse around the ethical implications of AI in general, as well as the new and disruptive AI technologies, such as generative AI platforms like ChatGPT.

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    • How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
    • By: Salman Khan
    • Narrated by: Salman Khan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.4 out of 5 stars 271 ratings
    • From the founder of Khan Academy comes the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution in education, its implications for parenting, and how we can best harness its power for good....

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    • The algorithmic spark
    • By: Sebastián Barros
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.0 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • What if the next spark of consciousness doesn’t come from a brain...but from a machine? In Consciousness in the Machine, Sebastián Barros ...

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    • The Invention of the Modern Mind
    • By: George Makari
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life....

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    • How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
    • By: Shannon Vallor
    • Narrated by: Kim Niemi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Shannon Vallor makes a wide-ranging, prophetic, and philosophical case for what AI could be: a way to reclaim our human potential for moral and intellectual growth, rather than lose ourselves in mirrors of the past.

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    • The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence
    • By: Amir Husain
    • Narrated by: Simon Jones
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.1 out of 5 stars 690 ratings
    • Amir Husain answers the universal question of how we can live amid the coming age of sentient machines and artificial intelligence - and not only survive but thrive....

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    • Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
    • By: Adrienne Mayor
    • Narrated by: Adrienne Mayor
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.4 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life - and even invented real automated machines, Gods and Robots is a groundbreaking account of the earliest expressions of the timeless impulse to create artificial life....

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    • Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
    • By: James Bridle
    • Narrated by: James Bridle
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Recent years have seen rapid advances in 'artificial' intelligence, which increasingly appears to be something stranger than we ever imagined....

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