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The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth
Robin Hanson
Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot...
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Global Edition
Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
For one or two-semester, undergraduate or graduate-level courses in Artificial Intelligence.The long-anticipated revision of this best-selling text offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the theory and practice of artificial intel...
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie
The hugely influential book on how the understanding of causality revolutionized science and the world, by the pioneer of artificial intelligence'Wonderful ... illuminating and fun to read' Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize-winner and author of Thinking,...
Defending AI Research: A Collection of Essays and Reviews
John McCarthy
CSLI Lecture Notes [192]: John McCarthy's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of LISP and time-sharing to the coining of the term AI and the founding of the AI laboratory at Stanford University. One of the foremost figures in comp...
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction
Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani and Jerome Friedman
During the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information technology. With it have come vast amounts of data in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing. The challenge of understanding these data ...
Machine Learning With R, the Tidyverse, and Mlr
Hefin I. Rhys
Summary Machine learning (ML) is a collection of programming techniques for discovering relationships in data. With ML algorithms, you can cluster and classify data for tasks like making recommendations or fraud detection and make predictions for sa...
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Pedro Domingos
"Wonderfully erudite, humorous, and easy to read." --KDNuggetsIn the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want,...
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
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. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If m...
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O'Neil
Longlisted for the National Book Award | New York Times Bestseller A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life and threaten to rip apart our social fabric.** We live in the age of the algorithm. I...