Machines Like Me

Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9781529111255
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machines Like Me written by Ian McEwan and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Number One Sunday Times Bestseller** Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - and soon a love triangle forms, which leads Charlie, Miranda and Adam to a profound moral dilemma. Can you design the perfect partner? What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Provocative and moving, Machines Like Me explores whether a machine can ever truly understand the human heart. 'Funny, thought-provoking and politically acute...' Sunday Times 'Dazzling' Guardian 'An unsettling examination of the human condition. Bold, clever' Sunday Telegraph

Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473567793
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machines Like Me written by Ian McEwan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Number One Sunday Times Bestseller** Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - and soon a love triangle forms, which leads Charlie, Miranda and Adam to a profound moral dilemma. Can you design the perfect partner? What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Provocative and moving, Machines Like Me explores whether a machine can ever truly understand the human heart. 'Funny, thought-provoking and politically acute...' Sunday Times 'Dazzling' Guardian 'An unsettling examination of the human condition. Bold, clever' Sunday Telegraph

Author : Paola Partenza
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3847015281
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Different Voices written by Paola Partenza and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of the "human" has been broadly re-visited and modified, and the term "posthuman" has now become a term of continuous inquiry. Gender (representations) play(s) a critical role in works of literature, culture, and art, and focusing on gender is crucial to uncovering the anthropocentrism or androcentrism that may underlie the work and the times to which it belongs. While maintaining a solid literary emphasis, the ten chapters included in this volume focus on feminist debates about women, technology, and the body, on gender representation and the posthuman, on post-gender figurations, on gender and trans/post/humanism, biotechnology/biopolitics/bioethics, on feminist posthumanism, on animals, the human-machine, and ecological posthumanism. The aim of the volume is to analyse how useful these concepts may be for thinking about the subject, its definition and identity in a changing society.

Author : Kirsten Hemmy
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811940339
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Englishes, Global Classrooms written by Kirsten Hemmy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical overview of contemporary world issues in Language and Literary Studies. It offers specific ideas as to how to move away from the traditional literary canon, on the one hand, and traditional native-speaker norms in English language teaching, on the other. It delivers a global perspective of both the growth and the challenges in ELT studies around the world. Following the introduction, the first section of the book contains chapters from international scholars on recognizing and diversifying Englishes in today’s language and translation classrooms. Specifically, the chapters focus on issues such as the cultural hegemony of a monolithic English, English and university pedagogy, English as a gatekeeper, and the role of a reconceived English education in promoting cross-cultural understanding. The second section focuses on the interaction of literature and culture, with specific chapters focusing on decolonizing the traditional literary canon, defining a global text, representing cultural interactions in literary texts, and emerging genres in contemporary English literature. Both sections of the book question the existing boundaries in a post-2020 world, specifically in a non-western world. It is an indispensable resource for scholars in cultural studies, linguistics, and literary studies.

Author : Frank Pasquale
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674250044
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Laws of Robotics written by Frank Pasquale and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AI is poised to disrupt our work and our lives. We can harness these technologies rather than fall captive to them—but only through wise regulation. Too many CEOs tell a simple story about the future of work: if a machine can do what you do, your job will be automated. They envision everyone from doctors to soldiers rendered superfluous by ever-more-powerful AI. They offer stark alternatives: make robots or be replaced by them. Another story is possible. In virtually every walk of life, robotic systems can make labor more valuable, not less. Frank Pasquale tells the story of nurses, teachers, designers, and others who partner with technologists, rather than meekly serving as data sources for their computerized replacements. This cooperation reveals the kind of technological advance that could bring us all better health care, education, and more, while maintaining meaningful work. These partnerships also show how law and regulation can promote prosperity for all, rather than a zero-sum race of humans against machines. How far should AI be entrusted to assume tasks once performed by humans? What is gained and lost when it does? What is the optimal mix of robotic and human interaction? New Laws of Robotics makes the case that policymakers must not allow corporations or engineers to answer these questions alone. The kind of automation we get—and who it benefits—will depend on myriad small decisions about how to develop AI. Pasquale proposes ways to democratize that decision making, rather than centralize it in unaccountable firms. Sober yet optimistic, New Laws of Robotics offers an inspiring vision of technological progress, in which human capacities and expertise are the irreplaceable center of an inclusive economy.

Author : Jaishree Mahadevan
Publisher : Edisun Consulting Services
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whispers to Your Soul–II: Discovering the Roots of Morality written by Jaishree Mahadevan and published by Edisun Consulting Services . This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, Whispers to Your Soul – II, comprises some remarkable life experiences and exceptional encounters of its author Jaishree Mahadevan, an established blogger. From the delightful candy man to the elusive chameleon, she draws inspiration from who and what we see in daily life to spin thought-provoking tales that will linger on in your heart and keep you pondering over the morals she so easily ensures tug at your heartstrings. Grab your copy and enjoy this heartwarming book over a cup of coffee!

Author : Paul Giles
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198857721
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Planetary Clock written by Paul Giles and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging over various aesthetic forms (literature, film, music) in the period since 1960, this volume brings an antipodean perspective into conversation with the art and culture of the Northern Hemisphere, to reformulate postmodernism as a properly global phenomenon.

Author : Stephen J. Hage
Publisher : Stephen Hage
ISBN 13 : 1424129559
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syster Is Ready written by Stephen J. Hage and published by Stephen Hage. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would happen if a private company developed a computer faster and more powerful than any computer that ever existed; one that could think orders of magnitude better and faster than all the humans whod ever lived? Would the government, DARPA and NSA be interested and concerned? Would they see it as a threat? Would its emergence foreshadow great opportunity, great peril or both? Who would stand to gain? Who would stand to lose? What would its existence mean for humanity? Would we come to depend on this computer for dealing with problems that, without it, could not be solved? Would it be safe to trust the information it gave us? Once we became dependent on the availability of so much computer power, would it be possible to even consider turning it off? Read SYSTER Is Ready and find out.

Author : Lee Barron
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803823275
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AI and Popular Culture written by Lee Barron and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AI and Popular Culture sheds light on how artificial intelligence has changed our world and helps you to understand where it might take us next.

Author : Anthony Elliott
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 150954982X
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Algorithmic Intimacy written by Anthony Elliott and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artificial intelligence not only powers our cars, hospitals and courtrooms: predictive algorithms are becoming deeply lodged inside us too. Machine intelligence is learning our private preferences and discreetly shaping our personal behaviour, telling us how to live, who to befriend and who to date. In Algorithmic Intimacy, Anthony Elliott examines the power of predictive algorithms in reshaping personal relationships today. From Facebook friends and therapy chatbots to dating apps and quantified sex lives, Elliott explores how machine intelligence is working within us, amplifying our desires and steering our personal preferences. He argues that intimate relationships today are threatened not by the digital revolution as such, but by the orientation of various life strategies unthinkingly aligned with automated machine intelligence. Our reliance on algorithmic recommendations, he suggests, reflects a growing emergency in personal agency and human bonds. We need alternatives, innovation and experimentation for the interpersonal, intimate effort of ongoing translation back and forth between the discourses of human and machine intelligence. Accessible and compelling, this book sheds fresh light on the impact of artificial intelligence on the most intimate aspects of our lives. It will appeal to students in the social sciences and humanities and to a wide range of general readers.