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The municipalists : a novel
\"In Metropolis, the gleaming city of tomorrow, the dream of the great American city has been achieved. But all that is about to change, unless a neurotic, rule-following bureaucrat and an irreverent, freewheeling artificial intelligence can save the city from a mysterious terrorist plot that threatens its very existence. [This book] is a thrilling, funny, and touching adventure story, a tour-de-force of imagination that trenchantly explores our relationships to the cities around us and the technologies guiding us into the future\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Winning the Race With Ever-Smarter Machines
Rapid advances in information technology computer hardware, software and networks are yielding applications that can do anything from answering game show questions to driving cars. But to gain true leverage from these ever-improving technologies, companies need new processes and business models. The authors observe that automated activities that once seemed impossible are becoming real, because of plentiful accurate data, powerful sensors, massive storage capacity and increasing processing power. The capabilities of computers are now improving so quickly that concepts can move from the realm of science fiction into everyday life in just a few years, rather than a lifetime. This remarkable progress is due to two concepts: Moore's Law (now generally accepted as the doubling of computing capacity every 18 months) and the power of exponential growth. The authors point out that digitization is an ongoing process of creative destruction that innovators use to make deep changes at the level of the task, the process and the organization itself. Its effects can be seen in all industries and sectors. Rather than positioning these changes as humans against machines, the authors propose that the key is to win by using machines to invent new organizational structures, processes and business models that mix human and machine capabilities. They detail several strategies, including creating processes that combine the speed of technology with human insight, leveraging IT to enable new forms of human collaboration and commerce, using human insight to apply IT in order to improve processes, and using IT to propagate the new processes that people develop. When businesses are based on bits instead of atoms, the possibilities for innovation are endless. This article also includes a list of new technologies to watch such as voice recognition and translation software and one of skills that will remain in demand. As computers get better at pattern recognition, complex communication and other skills, many kinds of jobs will become obsolete. But computers limitations such as an inability to think outside the box or to empathize ensure that skills such as negotiation, good writing and good management will continue to be needed.
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Three laws lethal
\"The place, New York City; the time, the very near future. The streets of Gotham are swarming with self-driving cars, which are now a reality, and the competition between two entrepreneurs for this cutthroat futuristic business grows increasingly fierce. But when the escalating technological warfare produces superintelligent AI computers that use data to decide who should live and die, the results are explosive . . . and deadly.It is left to young Naomi Sumner, inventor of the virtual world in which the AIs train, to recognize that the supercomputers are developing goals of their own - goals for which they are willing to kill. But can she stop these inhuman machines before it is too late? More importantly, will she stop them?\"--Publisher description.
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Commentary: Rise of machine learning and artificial intelligence in ophthalmology
Way back in 2016, Google had reported the use of a deep CNN to create an algorithm for automated detection of diabetic retinopathy (DR) and diabetic macular edema in retinal fundus photographs. [2] The main areas of ophthalmology where major strides in AI[3] have been made are in analyzing fundus images of DR, age-related macular degeneration (ARMD), retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), retinal vein occlusion (RVO), and glaucoma. The accompanying review article, titled “Artificial intelligence in diabetic retinopathy: a natural step to the future”,[8] looks at various studies which used different types of artificial intelligence and deep learning techniques to screen fundus images for DR. The wide variety of techniques in the different studies itself tells us that we are standing on the cusp of a massive boom in AI in healthcare.
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Unforgettable
\"Due to a fluke of quantum mechanics, no one can remember Nat Morgan for more than a minute after he's gone. It's a useful ability for his career as a CIA agent, even if he has to keep reminding his boss that he exists. Nat's attempt to steal a quantum chip prototype is thwarted when a former FSB agent, Yelena Semyonova, attempts to steal the same technology for the Russian mob. Along with a brilliant Iranian physicist who wants to defect, Nat and Yelena must work together to stop a ruthless billionaire from finishing a quantum supercomputer that will literally control the fate of the world\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Goldstrike : a thriller
After escaping Camp Twilight, eighteen-year-old Carl Hobbes and Beth, his girlfriend, begin a new life in London, England, where he attempts to program Sphynx Cargo's highly intelligent supercomputer to help protect them from the CIA and assassins.
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More Bit Than Bio - Communicating and Discussing Whole Brain Emulation, Mind Uploading & Superintellingence Using Thought Experiments
This thesis revolves on the topics of whole brain emulation, mind uploading and superintelligence that are ingrained with specifically conceived TEs to each of the chapters / topics, creating an environment to discuss and communicate scientific topics of the utmost importance for our common future.Three thought experiments were designed for this thesis in the context of mind uploading and superintelligence. They are presented in a first chapter dedicated to clarify the potential and applicability of thought experiments communicating fundamental ideas in these scientific and technological fields, because the controversial (and often speculative) nature of these topics call for an out-of-the-box approach to be better analyzed and discussed. In the second chapter, whole brain emulation is thoroughly explored in its technical feasibility, paving the way for a metaphysical approach of mind uploading in the third chapter. Personal identity is, with the help of these thought experiments (TE: iterating human predictor response), scrutinized given that its current conceptual form does not provide a totally satisfactory explanation for several cases that come to light through mind uploading possible scenarios. Consciousness is then also analyzed in the light of existentialism and through the aforementioned thought experiments (TE: the delusion of reality), exploring the possibility of upgrading it, just as intelligence is predicted to be upgraded in the near future. It is argued that mind uploading could enable consciousness to perpetuate and that this purpose also counts as a survival backup of humankind making of mind uploading the means to maintain human thought alive throughout time. The fourth chapter explores the impact and possible outcomes superintelligence entails. Here, another of these thought experiments (TE: iterating human intelligence) is applied as an evolutionary algorithm approach to argue about the competitive balance humankind might have in order to avoid artificial superintelligence to either overcome or even subdue our species. The last chapter of this thesis is an analysis of a number of semi structured interviews conducted with experts in fields such as neuroscience, computing science and philosophy, among others. These were carried out to bring valuable input on the topics discussed throughout the thesis.
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