Sensation Machines

Author : Adam Wilson
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781641291668

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Sensation Machines by Adam Wilson Pdf

A razor-sharp, darkly funny, and deeply human rendering of a Post-Trump America in economic free fall Michael and Wendy Mixner are a Brooklyn-based couple whose marriage is failing in the wake of a personal tragedy. Michael, a Wall Street trader, is meanwhile keeping a secret: he lost the couple’s life savings when a tanking economy caused a major market crash. And Wendy, a digital marketing strategist, has been hired onto a data-mining project of epic scale, whose mysterious creator has ambitions to solve a national crisis of mass unemployment and reshape America’s social and political landscapes. When Michael’s best friend is murdered, the evidence leads back to Wendy’s client, setting off a dangerous chain of events that will profoundly change the couple—and the country. Set in an economic dystopia that’s just around the corner, Sensation Machines is both an endlessly twisty novel of big ideas, and a brilliantly observed human drama that grapples with greed, automation, universal basic income, wearable tech, revolutionary desires, and a broken justice system. Adam Wilson implicates not only the powerbrokers gaming the system and getting rich at the intersection of Wall Street, Madison Avenue, Silicon Valley, and Capitol Hill, but all of us: each one of us playing our parts, however willingly or unwillingly, in the vast systems that define and control our lives.

Author : Tessa Leach
Publisher : Open Humanities Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1785420828

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Machine Sensation by Tessa Leach Pdf

Emphasising the alien qualities of anthropomorphic technologies, Machine Sensation makes a conscious effort to increase rather than decrease the tension between nonhuman and human experience. In a series of rigorously executed cases studies, including natural user interfaces, artificial intelligence as well as sex robots, Leach shows how object-oriented ontology enables one to insist upon the unhuman nature of technology while acknowledging its immense power and significance in human life. Machine Sensation meticulously engages OOO, Actor Network Theory, the philosophy of technology, cybernetics and posthumanism in innovative and gripping ways.

Author : Cesar A. Hidalgo,Diana Orghian,Jordi Albo Canals,Filipa De Almeida,Natalia Martin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262362528

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How Humans Judge Machines by Cesar A. Hidalgo,Diana Orghian,Jordi Albo Canals,Filipa De Almeida,Natalia Martin Pdf

How people judge humans and machines differently, in scenarios involving natural disasters, labor displacement, policing, privacy, algorithmic bias, and more. How would you feel about losing your job to a machine? How about a tsunami alert system that fails? Would you react differently to acts of discrimination depending on whether they were carried out by a machine or by a human? What about public surveillance? How Humans Judge Machines compares people's reactions to actions performed by humans and machines. Using data collected in dozens of experiments, this book reveals the biases that permeate human-machine interactions. Are there conditions in which we judge machines unfairly? Is our judgment of machines affected by the moral dimensions of a scenario? Is our judgment of machine correlated with demographic factors such as education or gender? César Hidalgo and colleagues use hard science to take on these pressing technological questions. Using randomized experiments, they create revealing counterfactuals and build statistical models to explain how people judge artificial intelligence and whether they do it fairly. Through original research, How Humans Judge Machines bring us one step closer tounderstanding the ethical consequences of AI.

Author : Philipp Beckerle,Claudio Castellini,Bigna Lenggenhager,Strahinja Dosen
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889749256

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Embodiment and Co-Adaptation Through Human-Machine Interfaces: at the Border of Robotics, Neuroscience and Psychology by Philipp Beckerle,Claudio Castellini,Bigna Lenggenhager,Strahinja Dosen Pdf

Author : Ray Kurzweil
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781101077887

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The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil Pdf

Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century--an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live. Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future takes us through the advances that inexorably result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain by the year 2020 (with human-level capabilities not far behind); in relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers; and in information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways. Optimistic and challenging, thought-provoking and engaging, The Age of Spiritual Machines is the ultimate guide on our road into the next century.

Author : Herman Cappelen,Josh Dever
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192894724

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Making AI Intelligible by Herman Cappelen,Josh Dever Pdf

Can humans and artificial intelligences share concepts and communicate? One aim of Making AI Intelligible is to show that philosophical work on the metaphysics of meaning can help answer these questions. Cappelen and Dever use the externalist tradition in philosophy of to create models of how AIs and humans can understand each other. In doing so, they also show ways in which that philosophical tradition can be improved: our linguistic encounters with AIs revel that our theories of meaning have been excessively anthropocentric. The questions addressed in the book are not only theoretically interesting, but the answers have pressing practical implications. Many important decisions about human life are now influenced by AI. In giving that power to AI, we presuppose that AIs can track features of the world that we care about (e.g. creditworthiness, recidivism, cancer, and combatants.) If AIs can share our concepts, that will go some way towards justifying this reliance on AI. The book can be read as a proposal for how to take some first steps towards achieving interpretable AI. Making AI Intelligible is of interest to both philosophers of language and anyone who follows current events or interacts with AI systems. It illustrates how philosophy can help us understand and improve our interactions with AI.

Author : Francis N. Marzulli,Howard I. Maibach
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1439805873

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Dermatotoxicology Methods by Francis N. Marzulli,Howard I. Maibach Pdf

This work presents and evaluates methods employed to identify the potential of certain types of chemicals to adversely affect the skin. A variety of test methods are included such as tests for skin penetration, metabolism, irritation, the skin immune system, photo effects, skin cancer, and topical effects of retinoids and depigmenting chemicals. Tests for chemicals that affect the reproductive and nervous system are also included. Both animal and human tests that have been standardised and tests that are under development and employ animal alternatives are addressed in this book. Besides different testing methods, a rationale for accepting non-animal models and a review of some regulatory agency discussions about animal alternative tests are included.

Author : Jan Plamper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199668335

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The History of Emotions by Jan Plamper Pdf

The history of emotions is one of the fastest growing fields in current historical debate, and this is the first book-length introduction to the field, synthesizing the current research, and offering direction for future study.The History of Emotions is organized around the debate between social constructivist and universalist theories of emotion that has shaped most emotions research in a variety of disciplines for more than a hundred years: social constructivists believe that emotions are largely learned and subject to historical change, while universalists insist on the timelessness and pan-culturalism of emotions. In historicizing and problematizing this binary, Jan Plamper opens emotions research beyond constructivism and universalism; he also maps a vast terrain of thought about feelings in anthropology, philosophy, sociology, linguistics, art history, political science, the life sciences - from nineteenth-century experimental psychology to the latest affective neuroscience - and history, from ancient times to the present day.

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307957337

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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Pdf

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Author : Emma Widdis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253027078

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Socialist Senses by Emma Widdis Pdf

“Widdis’s rich and fascinating book has opened a new perspective from which to think about the Soviet cinema.” —Kritika This major reimagining of the history of Soviet film and its cultural impact explores the fundamental transformations in how film, through the senses, remade the Soviet self in the 1920s and 1930s. Following the Russian Revolution, there was a shared ambition for a ‘sensory revolution’ to accompany political and social change: Soviet men and women were to be reborn into a revitalized relationship with the material world. Cinema was seen as a privileged site for the creation of this sensory revolution: Film could both discover the world anew, and model a way of inhabiting it. Drawing upon an extraordinary array of films, noted scholar Emma Widdis shows how Soviet cinema, as it evolved from the revolutionary avant-garde to Socialist Realism, gradually shifted its materialist agenda from emphasizing the external senses to instilling the appropriate internal senses (consciousness, emotions) in the new Soviet subject.

Author : Adrian R Morrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195374445

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An Odyssey with Animals by Adrian R Morrison Pdf

Draws from the disciplines of philosophy, history, biology, and animal behavior to argue in favor of the humane use of animals in biomedical research and negotiate the divide between research and concern for animals.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385333604

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On the Extraordinary Remedial Efficacy of Medical Galvanism when Applied by Means of Halse's Galvanic Apparatus by Anonymous Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.

Author : The New York Times Editorial Staff
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781642821369

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Artificial Intelligence by The New York Times Editorial Staff Pdf

When will artificial intelligence become a reality? It already is. Although the idea of artificial intelligence has captured the human imagination since antiquity, the term wasn't coined until the mid-1950s. Since then, A.I. has steadily entered many humans' lives, and its continued integration appears inevitable. This book collects recent New York Times articles that present the most current discussions about artificial intelligence. How is A.I. being developed? What will its impact be on work and the economy? What might it mean for religion and philosophy? And, perhaps the most urgent question, will A.I. benefit humanity, or cause its demise?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UCAL:B5587101

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The British and Foreign Medical Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen Zepke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135465766

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Art as Abstract Machine by Stephen Zepke Pdf

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.