Philosophy Machine
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NIHILISM
- The Emptiness of the Machine
- By: André Cancian
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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A bold philosophical defense of existential nihilism based on modern science. * * * When we imagine a machine, the result is always something close to a mechanical system that works by itself. It doesn’t bother us to think that it’s nothing beyond that. But how do we feel when we imagine ourselves as a machine? Empty. We have the feeling that something is missing. And what is missing? What’s there in a human that is missing in a machine? Illusion. The emptiness of the machine is the consciousness that our subjective world is a fiction; the consciousness that our humanity is a delirium...
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NIHILISM
- The Emptiness of the Machine
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Release date: 03-27-25
- Language: English
- 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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The Experience Machine
- How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
- By: Andy Clark
- Narrated by: Andy Clark
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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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. What if rather than perceiving reality passively, your mind actively predicts it?
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3 out of 5 stars
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About halfway through, it became propaganda
- By Jesse Helton on 08-13-23
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The Experience Machine
- How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
- Narrated by: Andy Clark
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 05-02-23
- Language: English
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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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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 926
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 751
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 746
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. Algorithms decide bail and parole - and appear to assess black and white defendants differently. We can no longer assume that our mortgage application, or even our medical tests, will be seen by human eyes. And autonomous vehicles on our streets can injure or kill.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Required reading for any AI course
- By ehan ferguson on 11-16-20
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The Alignment Problem
- Machine Learning and Human Values
- Narrated by: Brian Christian
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 10-06-20
- Language: English
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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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Machines of Loving Grace
- The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
- By: John Markoff
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 180
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As robots are increasingly integrated into modern society - on the battlefield and the road, in business, education, and health - Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times science writer John Markoff searches for an answer to one of the most important questions of our age: Will these machines help us, or will they replace us?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent blend of tech, philosophy, bio
- By S. Yates on 08-08-16
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Machines of Loving Grace
- The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 08-25-15
- Language: English
- 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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The Knowledge Machine
- How Irrationality Created Modern Science
- By: Michael Strevens
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Almost there. Scholarly review.
- By John on 05-02-21
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The Knowledge Machine
- How Irrationality Created Modern Science
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 11-03-20
- Language: English
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A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science....
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Superintelligence
- Paths, Dangers, Strategies
- By: Nick Bostrom
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,383
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 3,779
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,741
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Colossus: The Forbin Project is coming
- By Gary on 09-12-14
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Superintelligence
- Paths, Dangers, Strategies
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 09-03-14
- Language: English
- Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life....
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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 467
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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. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: The union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations.
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2 out of 5 stars
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RUINED audio.
- By Fred on 06-25-21
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The Singularity Is Near
- When Humans Transcend Biology
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 12-10-19
- Language: English
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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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Gene Machine
- The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
- By: Venki Ramakrishnan
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 653
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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 - that makes DNA come to life, turning our genetic code into proteins and therefore into us. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome, a fundamental discovery that both advances our knowledge of all life and could lead to the development of better antibiotics against life-threatening diseases.
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5 out of 5 stars
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biochemistry+autobiography+science politics
- By Irina Bataeva on 02-15-19
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Gene Machine
- The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 11-06-18
- Language: English
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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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Rationality: From AI to Zombies
- By: Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Narrated by: George Thomas, Robert DeRoeck, Aaron Silverbook
- Length: 49 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 161
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What does it actually mean to be rational? Not Hollywood-style "rational", where you forsake all human feeling to embrace Cold Hard Logic, but where you make good decisions, even when it's hard; where you reason well, even in the face of massive uncertainty; where you recognize and make full use of your fuzzy intuitions and emotions, rather than trying to discard them. In Rationality: From AI to Zombies, Eliezer Yudkowsky explains the science underlying human irrationality with a mix of fables, argumentative essays, and personal vignettes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great content. Some chapters should be re-recorded.
- By Geordie on 03-13-18
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies
- Narrated by: George Thomas, Robert DeRoeck, Aaron Silverbook
- Length: 49 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 11-02-17
- Language: English
- Eliezer Yudkowsky explains the science underlying human irrationality with a mix of fables, argumentative essays, and personal vignettes....
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AI's Brilliant Answers to Consciousness
- A Groundbreaking Dialogue Between Human and Machine
- By: Sar Maroof
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Humans have never faced a species more intelligent than themselves. But this is about to change, because we have created AI—a form of intelligence that can be more knowledgeable than any person. This may be the biggest challenge our generation will ever face. Many questions about this remain unanswered. To explore them, I decided to start a conversation with an AI. Before our interview, I asked the Deepseek AI to introduce itself. The answers it gave were unbelievable. It's difficult to imagine that it has no feelings, no consciousness, and no life as we know it, yet it can provide ...
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AI's Brilliant Answers to Consciousness
- A Groundbreaking Dialogue Between Human and Machine
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 10-05-25
- Language: English
- 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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The Shame Machine
- Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
- By: Cathy O'Neil
- Narrated by: Cathy O'Neil
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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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. It is increasingly being weaponized—used as a way to shift responsibility for social problems from institutions to individuals.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Bit Slanted, Marginally Pro-Bullying
- By wj on 05-19-22
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The Shame Machine
- Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
- Narrated by: Cathy O'Neil
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 03-22-22
- Language: English
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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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Life 3.0
- By: Max Tegmark
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 154
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Penguin Audio presents Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark, read by Rob Shapiro. 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 - and even our very sense of what it means to be human. More than any other technology, AI has the potential to revolutionise our collective future - and there's nobody better situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor and cofounder of the Future of Life Institute, whose work has helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book. But not much new
- By Management Consultant on 08-13-18
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Life 3.0
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 04-05-18
- Language: English
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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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Digital Ethics in the Age of AI
- Navigating the Ethical Frontier Today and Beyond
- By: Dr. Julie E. Mehan
- Narrated by: Emma Newman
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Digital Ethics in the Age of AI
- Navigating the Ethical Frontier Today and Beyond
- 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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Brave New Words
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Whether we like it or not, the AI revolution is coming to education. In Brave New Words, Salman Khan, the visionary behind Khan Academy, explores how artificial intelligence and GPT technology will transform learning, and offers a road map for teachers, parents, and students to navigate this exciting (and sometimes intimidating) new world. A pioneer in the field of education technology, Khan examines the ins and outs of these cutting-edge tools and how they will revolutionize the way we learn and teach.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Rather disappointing
- By Anonymous on 05-28-24
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Brave New Words
- How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
- Narrated by: Salman Khan
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 05-14-24
- Language: English
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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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Consciousness in the machine
- The algorithmic spark
- By: Sebastián Barros
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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What if the next spark of consciousness doesn’t come from a brain...but from a machine? In Consciousness in the Machine, Sebastián Barros explores the question that will define our future: Can artificial intelligence become truly aware? Blending science, philosophy, and real-life cases, this book dives into the mystery of the mind, both human and artificial. From dreams and neurons to chatbots that claim to feel, it’s a journey through the edge of intelligence, where ethics blur and machines begin to whisper I am.
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Consciousness in the machine
- The algorithmic spark
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 04-29-25
- Language: English
- 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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Soul Machine
- The Invention of the Modern Mind
- By: George Makari
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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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. This is the story of how a new concept - the mind - emerged as a potential solution, one that was part soul and part machine but fully neither.
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5 out of 5 stars
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High yield
- By Mark Twain on 01-21-16
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Soul Machine
- The Invention of the Modern Mind
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 11-02-15
- Language: English
- 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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The AI Mirror
- How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
- By: Shannon Vallor
- Narrated by: Kim Niemi
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 12
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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. Rejecting prophecies of doom, she encourages us to pursue technology that helps us recover our sense of the possible, and with it the confidence and courage to repair a broken world. Vallor calls us to rethink what AI is and can be, and what we want to be with it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Timely But Incomplete
- By Amazon Customer on 12-30-24
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The AI Mirror
- How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
- Narrated by: Kim Niemi
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 06-03-24
- Language: English
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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 Sentient Machine
- The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence
- By: Amir Husain
- Narrated by: Simon Jones
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 690
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 610
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Story4 out of 5 stars 614
The future is now. Artificial "machine" intelligence is playing an ever-greater role in our society. We are already using cruise control in our cars and automatic checkout at the drugstore and are unable to live without our smartphones. The discussion around AI is largely polarized; people think either machines will solve all problems for everyone or they will lead us down a dark, dystopian path into total human irrelevance. Regardless of what you believe, the idea that we might bring forth intelligent creation can be intrinsically frightening.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable overall with good story telling
- By Gary on 02-03-18
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The Sentient Machine
- The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Narrated by: Simon Jones
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 11-21-17
- Language: English
- 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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Gods and Robots
- Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
- By: Adrienne Mayor
- Narrated by: Adrienne Mayor
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by Hephaestus, the Greek god of invention, more than 2,500 years ago. In this groundbreaking account of the earliest expressions of the timeless impulse to create artificial life, Adrienne Mayor tells the fascinating story of how ancient Greek, Roman, Indian, and Chinese myths envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices, and human enhancements - and how these visions relate to and reflect the ancient invention of real animated machines.
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2 out of 5 stars
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disappointed
- By C Makoski on 10-31-19
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Gods and Robots
- Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
- Narrated by: Adrienne Mayor
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 11-13-18
- Language: English
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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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Ways of Being
- Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
- By: James Bridle
- Narrated by: James Bridle
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Recent years have seen rapid advances in 'artificial' intelligence, which increasingly appears to be something stranger than we ever imagined. At the same time, we are becoming more aware of the other intelligences which have been with us all along, unrecognised. These other beings are the animals, plants and natural systems that surround us, and are slowly revealing their complexity and knowledge - just as the new technologies we've built are threatening to cause their extinction, and ours.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mind and heart opener
- By Pablo Núñez Palma on 11-27-23
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Ways of Being
- Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
- Narrated by: James Bridle
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 04-07-22
- Language: English
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Recent years have seen rapid advances in 'artificial' intelligence, which increasingly appears to be something stranger than we ever imagined....
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