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The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It's Too Late

by Cory Doctorow ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNational Indie Bestseller"[Doctorow] resembles the great rock critics of an earlier era, a high-tech Greil Marcus or even a Lester Bangs." —Stephen Marche, The New York Times Book ReviewA short, provocative guide to what's good, bad, and stupid about AI and the discourse around AI, by the author of Enshittification.In modern tech parlance, a c... ... Read more

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNational Indie Bestseller"[Doctorow] resembles the great rock critics of an earlier era, a high-tech Greil Marcus or even a Lester Bangs." —Stephen Marche, The New York Times Book ReviewA short, provocative guide to what's good, bad, and stupid about AI and the discourse around AI, by the author of Enshittification.In modern tech parlance, a c...
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The Singularity Is Nearer

When We Merge with AI

by Ray Kurzweil ...

**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEThe 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 ... Read more

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**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEThe 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
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The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

by Jill Lepore ...

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLonglisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearBest Books of August: Barnes & Noble, GoodreadsA New York Times New and Notable Title“Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance, and our most vital historian. Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of our times, and Lepore is the voice of ... Read more

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**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLonglisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearBest Books of August: Barnes & Noble, GoodreadsA New York Times New and Notable Title“Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance, and our most vital historian. Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of our times, and Lepore is the voice of
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The Age of Spiritual Machines

When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

by Ray Kurzweil ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Bold futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity Is Near, offers a framework for envisioning the future of machine intelligence—“a book for anyone who wonders where human technology is going next” (The New York Times Book Review).“Kurzweil offers a thought-provoking analysis of human and artificial intelligence and a unique look at a future in which the capabilities of ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Bold futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity Is Near, offers a framework for envisioning the future of machine intelligence—“a book for anyone who wonders where human technology is going next” (The New York Times Book Review).“Kurzweil offers a thought-provoking analysis of human and artificial intelligence and a unique look at a future in which the capabilities of
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Co-Intelligence

Living and Working with AI

by Ethan Mollick ...

**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI**Something new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could ... Read more

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**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI**Something new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could
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Deep Unlearning

The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist

by Timnit Gebru ...

Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—delivering an inspiring vision for better, human-centered, equitable technology.Timnit Gebru has been present at nearly every inflection point in tech’s recent history. She was an engineer at Apple on the cusp of the iPhone’s first release, a PhD student at ... Read more

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Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—delivering an inspiring vision for better, human-centered, equitable technology.Timnit Gebru has been present at nearly every inflection point in tech’s recent history. She was an engineer at Apple on the cusp of the iPhone’s first release, a PhD student at
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Building AI-Powered Products

The Essential Guide to AI and GenAI Product Management

by Marily Nika ...

Drawing from her experience at Google and Meta, Dr. Marily Nika delivers the definitive guide for product managers building AI and GenAI powered products. Packed with smart strategies, actionable tools, and real-world examples, this book breaks down the complex world of AI agents and generative AI products into a playbook for driving innovation to help product leaders bridge the gap between niche ... Read more

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Drawing from her experience at Google and Meta, Dr. Marily Nika delivers the definitive guide for product managers building AI and GenAI powered products. Packed with smart strategies, actionable tools, and real-world examples, this book breaks down the complex world of AI agents and generative AI products into a playbook for driving innovation to help product leaders bridge the gap between niche
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The God Test

Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning

by Robert Wright ...

From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Wright comes a sweeping new view of artificial intelligence—as an evolutionary force that will pose deep political and spiritual challenges and could, in the process, give our species a unifying sense of purpose.The God Test is the first book to capture the power behind the AI revolution—to clearly explain the breakthroughs that sparked ... Read more

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From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Wright comes a sweeping new view of artificial intelligence—as an evolutionary force that will pose deep political and spiritual challenges and could, in the process, give our species a unifying sense of purpose.The God Test is the first book to capture the power behind the AI revolution—to clearly explain the breakthroughs that sparked
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I Am Not a Robot

My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything

by Joanna Stern ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhat happens when intelligent machines aren’t just in our pockets but are also driving our cars, making our decisions, folding our laundry, and educating our kids?You’ve heard the hype: AI will make us healthier, give every child a personalized tutor, run our businesses more efficiently, return hours of free time to our overworked brains, and make discoveries ... Read more

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhat happens when intelligent machines aren’t just in our pockets but are also driving our cars, making our decisions, folding our laundry, and educating our kids?You’ve heard the hype: AI will make us healthier, give every child a personalized tutor, run our businesses more efficiently, return hours of free time to our overworked brains, and make discoveries
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Language Machines

Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism

by Leif Weatherby ...

Series series Posthumanities
How generative AI systems capture a core function of languageLooking at the emergence of generative AI, Language Machines presents a new theory of meaning in language and computation, arguing that humanistic scholarship misconstrues how large language models (LLMs) function. Seeing LLMs as a convergence of computation and language, Leif Weatherby contends that AI does not simulate cognition, as ... Read more

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How generative AI systems capture a core function of languageLooking at the emergence of generative AI, Language Machines presents a new theory of meaning in language and computation, arguing that humanistic scholarship misconstrues how large language models (LLMs) function. Seeing LLMs as a convergence of computation and language, Leif Weatherby contends that AI does not simulate cognition, as
... Read more
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares ...

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | The New Yorker's Best Books of 2025 | The Guardian's Best Books of 2025 | A 2025 Booklist Editors' Choice PickThe scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction—but it’s not too late to change course, as two of the field’s earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity."May prove to be the most important book of our time. ... Read more

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**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | The New Yorker's Best Books of 2025 | The Guardian's Best Books of 2025 | A 2025 Booklist Editors' Choice PickThe scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction—but it’s not too late to change course, as two of the field’s earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity."May prove to be the most important book of our time.
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The AI Con

How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

by Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna ...

A smart, incisive work of technology criticism that examines the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks of systems sold under this banner, and why it’s crucial to recognize the many ways in which AI hype covers for a small set of power-hungry actors.Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world? Have big tech scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think ... Read more

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A smart, incisive work of technology criticism that examines the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks of systems sold under this banner, and why it’s crucial to recognize the many ways in which AI hype covers for a small set of power-hungry actors.Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world? Have big tech scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think
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Talking to Robots

Tales from Our Human-Robot Futures

by David Ewing Duncan ...

Award-winning journalist David Ewing Duncan considers 24 visions of possible human-robot futures—Incredible scenarios from Teddy Bots to Warrior Bots, and Politician Bots to Sex Bots—Grounded in real technologies and possibilities and inspired by our imagination.What robot and AI systems are being built and imagined right now? What do they say about us, their creators? Will they usher in a ... Read more

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Award-winning journalist David Ewing Duncan considers 24 visions of possible human-robot futures—Incredible scenarios from Teddy Bots to Warrior Bots, and Politician Bots to Sex Bots—Grounded in real technologies and possibilities and inspired by our imagination.What robot and AI systems are being built and imagined right now? What do they say about us, their creators? Will they usher in a
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Army of None

Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

by Paul Scharre ...

**Winner of the 2019 William E. Colby Award"The book I had been waiting for. I can't recommend it highly enough." —Bill Gates**The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other high tech weapons ... Read more

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**Winner of the 2019 William E. Colby Award"The book I had been waiting for. I can't recommend it highly enough." —Bill Gates**The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other high tech weapons
... Read more
50 ML Projects To Understand LLMs

Investigate transformer mechanisms through data analysis, visualization, and experimentation

by Mike X Cohen ...

Most books teach you how to build LLMs from scratch or deploy them via APIs. This book uses guided machine learning projects to teach you how to understand, visualize, and investigate LLMs including GPT and BERT.Key FeaturesEach project is built around three learning goals: machine learning techniques, LLM mechanisms, and Python coding with data visualization.This is not a dense theoretical ... Read more

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Most books teach you how to build LLMs from scratch or deploy them via APIs. This book uses guided machine learning projects to teach you how to understand, visualize, and investigate LLMs including GPT and BERT.Key FeaturesEach project is built around three learning goals: machine learning techniques, LLM mechanisms, and Python coding with data visualization.This is not a dense theoretical
... Read more
The Doctor's Future

A Blueprint for Future-Proofing Your Profession and for Healthcare Decision Makers Leading the Evolution of AI/Robotics-Powered Medicine

by Dr. Pietro Emanuele Garbelli ...

The future of healthcare is being written now—will you shape it, or be left behind?The future of medicine is arriving faster than most doctors, healthcare leaders, and policy makers realize. In The Doctor’s Future, visionary acute medicine physician and thriving healthcare strategist, Dr. Pietro Emanuele Garbelli delivers an authoritative roadmap for navigating a healthcare revolution driven by ... Read more

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The future of healthcare is being written now—will you shape it, or be left behind?The future of medicine is arriving faster than most doctors, healthcare leaders, and policy makers realize. In The Doctor’s Future, visionary acute medicine physician and thriving healthcare strategist, Dr. Pietro Emanuele Garbelli delivers an authoritative roadmap for navigating a healthcare revolution driven by
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AI Native

The Mandate to Transform Your Company

by Kai-Fu Lee ...

**A sweeping roadmap for business leaders in the AI age, when every organization must rethink how it operates, competes, and creates value—from AI legend and New York Times bestselling author of AI Superpowers and AI 2041 Kai-Fu Lee“Kai-Fu Lee is among our most prescient thinkers and writers…. Powerful.”—Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO**Two years ago, the best AI agents could autonomously complete ... Read more

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**A sweeping roadmap for business leaders in the AI age, when every organization must rethink how it operates, competes, and creates value—from AI legend and New York Times bestselling author of AI Superpowers and AI 2041 Kai-Fu Lee“Kai-Fu Lee is among our most prescient thinkers and writers…. Powerful.”—Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO**Two years ago, the best AI agents could autonomously complete
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Generative AI Design Patterns

Solutions to Common Challenges When Building GenAI Agents and Applications

by Valliappa Lakshmanan, Hannes Hapke ...

Generative AI enables powerful new capabilities, but they come with some serious limitations that you'll have to tackle to ship a reliable application or agent. Luckily, experts in the field have compiled a library of 32 tried-and-true design patterns to address the challenges you're likely to encounter when building applications using LLMs, such as hallucinations, nondeterministic responses, and ... Read more

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Generative AI enables powerful new capabilities, but they come with some serious limitations that you'll have to tackle to ship a reliable application or agent. Luckily, experts in the field have compiled a library of 32 tried-and-true design patterns to address the challenges you're likely to encounter when building applications using LLMs, such as hallucinations, nondeterministic responses, and
... Read more
Machine Learning with SAS Viya

by SAS Institute Inc. ...

Master machine learning with SAS Viya!Machine learning can feel intimidating for new practitioners. Machine Learning with SAS Viya provides everything you need to know to get started with machine learning in SAS Viya, including decision trees, neural networks, and support vector machines. The analytics life cycle is covered from data preparation and discovery to deployment. Working with open ... Read more

$22.99 USD

Master machine learning with SAS Viya!Machine learning can feel intimidating for new practitioners. Machine Learning with SAS Viya provides everything you need to know to get started with machine learning in SAS Viya, including decision trees, neural networks, and support vector machines. The analytics life cycle is covered from data preparation and discovery to deployment. Working with open
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Unmasking AI

My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines

by Joy Buolamwini ...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls.“AI is not coming, it’s here. If we answer the beautiful call inside these pages, we can decide who we are going to be and how we’re going to use technology in service of what it means to be fully human.”—Brené Brown, #1 ... Read more

$12.99 USD

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls.“AI is not coming, it’s here. If we answer the beautiful call inside these pages, we can decide who we are going to be and how we’re going to use technology in service of what it means to be fully human.”—Brené Brown, #1
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Dive Into Algorithms

A Pythonic Adventure for the Intrepid Beginner

by Bradford Tuckfield ...

Dive Into Algorithms is a broad introduction to algorithms using the Python Programming Language.Dive Into Algorithms is a wide-ranging, Pythonic tour of many of the world's most interesting algorithms. With little more than a bit of computer programming experience and basic high-school math, you'll explore standard computer science algorithms for searching, sorting, and optimization; human-based ... Read more

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Dive Into Algorithms is a broad introduction to algorithms using the Python Programming Language.Dive Into Algorithms is a wide-ranging, Pythonic tour of many of the world's most interesting algorithms. With little more than a bit of computer programming experience and basic high-school math, you'll explore standard computer science algorithms for searching, sorting, and optimization; human-based
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Predictive Statistics

Analysis and Inference beyond Models

by Bertrand S. Clarke, Jennifer L. Clarke ...

Series Book 46 - Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics
All scientific disciplines prize predictive success. Conventional statistical analyses, however, treat prediction as secondary, instead focusing on modeling and hence estimation, testing, and detailed physical interpretation, tackling these tasks before the predictive adequacy of a model is established. This book outlines a fully predictive approach to statistical problems based on studying ... Read more

$90.99 USD

All scientific disciplines prize predictive success. Conventional statistical analyses, however, treat prediction as secondary, instead focusing on modeling and hence estimation, testing, and detailed physical interpretation, tackling these tasks before the predictive adequacy of a model is established. This book outlines a fully predictive approach to statistical problems based on studying
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Evolutionary Intelligence

How Technology Will Make Us Smarter

by W. Russell Neuman ...

A surprising vision of how human intelligence will coevolve with digital technology and revolutionize how we think and behave.It is natural for us to fear artificial intelligence. But does Siri really want to kill us? Perhaps we are falling into the trap of projecting human traits onto the machines we might build. In Evolutionary Intelligence,Neuman offers a surprisingly positive vision in which ... Read more

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A surprising vision of how human intelligence will coevolve with digital technology and revolutionize how we think and behave.It is natural for us to fear artificial intelligence. But does Siri really want to kill us? Perhaps we are falling into the trap of projecting human traits onto the machines we might build. In Evolutionary Intelligence,Neuman offers a surprisingly positive vision in which
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The Proof in the Code

How a Truth Machine Is Transforming Math and AI

by Kevin Hartnett ...

“The most interesting book I’ve ever read about math.” —Kevin Roose, New York Times tech columnist and co-host of the Hard Fork podcastThe Proof in the Code tells the inside story of Lean, a computer program that answers the age-old question: How do you know if something is true?It began as an obscure bug-checking program at Microsoft Research developed by a lone computer engineer named Le... ... Read more

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“The most interesting book I’ve ever read about math.” —Kevin Roose, New York Times tech columnist and co-host of the Hard Fork podcastThe Proof in the Code tells the inside story of Lean, a computer program that answers the age-old question: How do you know if something is true?It began as an obscure bug-checking program at Microsoft Research developed by a lone computer engineer named Le...
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