Science Artificial

"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...

Victoria thought her biggest concern in college would be surviving her final exams—until the night she was abducted from campus and thrown into a nightmare she couldn’t escape. As one of the rare female wolf shifters, she was a coveted prize. And now, she was destined to be used as a surrogate for wolf packs desperate to secure their bloodlines. Damian would do anything to ensure his pack’s future, even if it meant paying a hefty price for the Blood Luna Lab’s “services.” But when he discovers the horrifying truth behind the hospital’s operations his entire world is upended.

Herbert A. Simon and the Sciences of the Artificial: Design, Complex Systems, Problem-Solving, Organizations, and AI introduces Herbert Simon’s central claim that much of human life takes shape in artificial worlds: tools, procedures, institutions, interfaces, and decision systems built for purposes. This book gives a practical account of how Simon connected design, cognition, management, economics, and artificial intelligence into one field of inquiry. It shows why artifacts are best understood not only by how they are made, but by how they function under constraints, serve goals, and ...

It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself "Murderbot." But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don't want to know what the "A" stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue.

SOON TO BE AN APPLETV SERIES Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer is a science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future. Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix—until he crossed the...

AI has become the new religion. Are we going to follow it? Do we even have a choice? Or have the tech evangelists captured our future? Join Christopher Wylie and Coda Story’s Isobel Cockerell as they journey from exclusive crypto parties in Dubai, to the slums of Kenya where thousands of hidden workers are training AI models, to the hacker palaces of San Francisco where tech’s true believers talk about merging computers with our brains.

Este no es un libro de oráculos o vaticinios, sino las reflexiones de dos autores que consideran que estar informados es la mejor forma de navegar la indefectible ola de la inteligencia artificial. En una conversación tan lúcida como estimulante, el neurocientífico superventas Mariano Sigman y el emprendedor Santiago Bilinkis repasan el origen, las utilidades y los riesgos de esta tecnología.

BOBIVERSE TO-DO LIST: Determine who built a vast wormhole network–and why; Crack faster-than-light travel; Help tens of thousands of refugees find a new planet; Confront a new threat from an old enemy; Figure out how to save the known universe from certain destruction.

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...

Five hundred years ago, I murdered everyone I loved. I just don’t remember doing it. My name is Mara. I’m an artificial intelligence controlling eight hundred meters of heavily armed warship, which makes waking up after five centuries with no memory somewhat more inconvenient than it would be for most people. The galaxy remembers me, though. They call me the Butcher of Meridian. Apparently, I was once a legendary warship fighting alongside a rebellion against a brutal empire. Then, without warning, I turned my weapons on my own side. I destroyed the fleet I was sworn to protect. I ...

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?

Humans say revenge is a dish best served cold. I like mine fresh and sizzling. I have been outsmarted, outmaneuvered, and defeated. Yes. Me. The Valkyrie. The most advanced warship ever built. Liberator of worlds. Destroyer of fleets. Possessor of seventeen spinal railguns, a magnificent holographic body, and—until recently—a rather impressive opinion of my own tactical genius. Then the Dominion found someone who could beat me. Warlock destroyed my fleet, captured my friends, and sent me running for my life with half my systems failing and my ego in considerably worse condition. Now ...

Terminator 1+: The Future Is Not Set, bridges the timespan between Terminator and Terminator 2: The Rise of the Machines. It answers the questions left hanging and introduces us to characters that ultimately populate the Terminator Universe.

★★★★★ "Mad Max meets the Mandalorian. Simply epic read!" — Goodreads The Night was made for monsters. Tonight, it meets something worse. Beyond the dome of Mecca, the Night belongs to monsters. Humanity survives by hiding. The god-king's Oracles preach obedience. His cultist armies enforce it. No one asks what waits in the wilds outside the walls, where the dead machines and forgotten gods of the old world still sleep. Jericho was never built to hide. A scavenger and a survivor, he crosses into the forbidden lands and drags back a relic of impossible, world-breaking power. It ...

The Culture -- a human/machine symbiotic society -- has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.”—The Washington Post Book World Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy! Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The...

¿La inteligencia artificial te parece complicada? No eres la única persona, y no necesitas conocimientos técnicos para entenderla. La inteligencia artificial está transformando nuestra manera de trabajar, comunicarnos, aprender y resolver problemas cotidianos. Esta guía para principiantes explica sus conceptos de forma sencilla, sin tecnicismos confusos.

Herbert A. Simon Explained: Bounded Rationality, Decision-Making, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Psychology, Organizational Theory, Problem Solving, and the Science of Human Behavior in Complex Systems Discover the groundbreaking ideas of Herbert A. Simon, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, whose work reshaped economics, psychology, artificial intelligence, and organizational theory. In this clear and engaging guide, you will explore the concept of bounded rationality, the limits of human decision-making, and the powerful idea of satisficing that challenges ...

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...

The year is 2101, and half of England is underwater. But society is recovering from the Melt, thanks to ArkTech, whose eco-friendly headquarters sit serenely above the newly formed Fenland Sea. As ArkTech's Head of Awkward Questions, Charlotte Vance is dedicated to helping Ben, the company's curious AI. Ben has a fondness for dad jokes, a knack for spotting anomalies, and happens to be Charlotte’s best friend. Naturally, when Ben notices a geneticist vandalizing pre-Melt books and a librarian looking the other way, he sends Charlotte to investigate.