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Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
- By: Jaron Lanier
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance322
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In Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Jaron Lanier draws on his insider's expertise to explain precisely how social media works - by deploying constant surveillance and subconscious manipulation of its users - and why its cruel and dangerous effects are at the heart of its current business model and design. As well as offering 10 simple arguments for liberating yourself from its addictive hold, his witty and urgent manifesto outlines a vision for an alternative that provides all the benefits of social media without the harm.
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I did quit facebook on the basis of this book.
- By Thomasson on 04-07-18
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Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 31-05-18
- Language: English
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Logging Off
- The Human Cost of Our Digital World
- By: Adele Zeynep Walton
- Narrated by: Adele Zeynep Walton
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance6
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'You won't look at your screens in the same way after reading this book' Grace Blakeley, author of VULTURE CAPITALISM 'Read this book!' Jeremy Corbyn 'A must-read!' Deborah Frances-White, host of The Guilty Feminist 'Off grid with the homies is the dream. Big up Adele for everything she dreams...
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Great book about how our digital choices affect us!
- By Craig on 28-12-25
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Logging Off
- The Human Cost of Our Digital World
- Narrated by: Adele Zeynep Walton
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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- How AI Is Changing Our Lives — Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
- By: Madhumita Murgia
- Narrated by: Madhumita Murgia
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance33
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Read by the author, Madhumita Murgia, this audio edition includes a fascinating exclusive author interview, led by the global AI lead at publisher Pan Macmillan, Sara Lloyd. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 What does it mean to be human in a world that is rapidly changing...
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Misleading and irritating
- By JB on 02-04-26
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Code Dependent
- How AI Is Changing Our Lives — Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
- Narrated by: Madhumita Murgia
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 21-03-24
- Language: English
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Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today
- (and other lessons from history from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Power)
- By: Naomi Alderman
- Narrated by: Naomi Alderman
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance13
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Brought to you by Penguin. What’s the most useful thing you could know about your own life? In this era-defining book, developed from her groundbreaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns her boundless curiosity and incisive thinking to a question that affects us all: how do we...
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Very thought provoking
- By piernikowyludek on 10-05-26
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Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today
- (and other lessons from history from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Power)
- Narrated by: Naomi Alderman
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 13-11-25
- Language: English
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How to Think About AI
- A Guide for the Perplexed
- By: Richard Susskind
- Narrated by: Richard Susskind
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance17
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In How To Think About AI, Richard Susskind draws on his experience of working on AI since the early 1980s. For Susskind, balancing the benefits and threats of artificial intelligence is the defining challenge of our age. He explores the history of AI and possible scenarios for its future. His views on AI are not always conventional. He positions ChatGPT and generative AI as no more than the latest chapter in the ongoing story of AI and claims we are still at the foothills of developments.
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An enjoyable, thoughtful listen
- By M Nichols on 23-09-25
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How to Think About AI
- A Guide for the Perplexed
- Narrated by: Richard Susskind
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 08-05-25
- Language: English
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Muskism
- A Guide for the Perplexed
- By: Quinn Slobodian, Ben Tarnoff
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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Brought to you by Penguin. A pyrotechnic examination of Elon Musk as a symptom and avatar of our postliberal age Who on earth is Elon Musk and what is he doing? Is he a hero, a villain, or does he swing constantly between those two poles? According to the constant media gush driven by his every...
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great book
- By Anonymous on 02-05-26
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Muskism
- A Guide for the Perplexed
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 24-03-26
- Language: English
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How to Do Nothing
- Resisting the Attention Economy
- By: Jenny Odell
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gidel
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall125
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Performance99
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Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity...doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious - and overdrawn - resource we have.
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What is the point?
- By rjj on 01-02-21
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How to Do Nothing
- Resisting the Attention Economy
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gidel
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 15-07-19
- Language: English
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The Future of the Professions
- How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
- By: Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall142
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Performance116
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This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others to work as they did in the 20th century.
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Heavy but interesting
- By Clay on 20-08-19
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The Future of the Professions
- How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 26-01-16
- Language: English
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Human Compatible
- AI and the Problem of Control
- By: Stuart Russell
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall189
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Performance155
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Story156
Brought to you by Penguin. Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, according to the world's pre-eminent AI expert, it could also be the last. In this groundbreaking book on the biggest question facing humanity, Stuart Russell explains why he has...
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Disaster.
- By Armin Powalka on 14-01-21
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Human Compatible
- AI and the Problem of Control
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 08-10-19
- Language: English
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Technopoly
- The Surrender of Culture to Technology
- By: Neil Postman
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall51
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Performance47
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In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. According to Postman, technology is rapidly gaining sovereignty over social institutions and national life to become self-justifying, self-perpetuating, and omnipresent. He warns that this will have radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, religion, family, education, and more.
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interesting book, horrible narration.
- By Joe Lonsdale on 14-06-20
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Technopoly
- The Surrender of Culture to Technology
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 11-09-12
- Language: English
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AI For Good
- How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things That Matter
- By: Josh Tyrangiel
- Narrated by: Josh Tyrangiel
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In contrast to the wave of noisy polemics around AI, AI For Good explores how, in practice, it can actually improve our lives and tells the stories of everyday citizens at the forefront of this new “AI entrepreneurship.” AI is often framed as a force of radical transformation, either...
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AI For Good
- How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things That Matter
- Narrated by: Josh Tyrangiel
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 12-05-26
- Language: English
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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
- Narrated by: Jade Wheeler
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance22
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Brought to you by Penguin. A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing the real harm these technologies do to our jobs, health, society and environment, who stands to gain from them, and how to fight back. Is AI going to take...
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More social campaigning than argument
- By Ryu Sanada on 21-07-25
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The AI Con
- How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
- Narrated by: Jade Wheeler
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 22-05-25
- Language: English
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How AI Thinks
- How we built it, how it can help us, and how we can control it
- By: Nigel Toon
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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Brought to you by Penguin. Those who understand how AI thinks are about to win big. We are used to thinking of computers as being a step up from calculators - very good at storing information, and maybe even at playing a logical game like chess. But up to now they haven't been able to think in...
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The book is not really about how AI thinks
- By Anonymous on 07-07-24
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How AI Thinks
- How we built it, how it can help us, and how we can control it
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 08-02-24
- Language: English
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Attensity!
- A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement
- By: The Friends of Attention
- Narrated by: Alyssa Loh, Peter Schmidt, David Graham Burnett
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Brought to you by Penguin. We all feel it: something is seriously wrong. Our attention—that essential ability to give our minds and senses to the world—is being trapped, gutted, and sold out from under us by an industry of immense technological and financial power. The heedless exploitation...
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A powerful message that we should all heed.
- By Mr. R. E. Barr on 08-03-26
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Attensity!
- A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement
- Narrated by: Alyssa Loh, Peter Schmidt, David Graham Burnett
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 20-01-26
- Language: English
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How Progress Ends
- Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
- By: Carl Benedikt Frey
- Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance5
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In How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable. For most of human history, stagnation was the norm, and even today progress and prosperity in the world's largest, most advanced economies—the United States and China—have fallen short of expectations. To appreciate why we cannot depend on any AI-fueled great leap forward, Frey offers a remarkable and fascinating journey across the globe, spanning the past 1,000 years, to explain why some societies flourish and others fail in the wake of rapid technological change
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Game changing
- By 100ftJesus on 03-01-26
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How Progress Ends
- Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
- Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 16-09-25
- Language: English
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The Art of Invisibility
- The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
- By: Kevin Mitnick, Robert Vamosi, Mikko Hypponen - introduction
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall394
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Performance358
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Be online without leaving a trace. Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity literally stolen. Big companies and big governments want to know and exploit what you do, and privacy is a luxury few can afford or understand. In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin...
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Bad book
- By Dionysis Zindros on 07-12-19
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The Art of Invisibility
- The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 14-02-17
- Language: English
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The Extinction of Experience
- Reclaiming Our Humanity in a Digital World
- By: Christine Rosen
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance13
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Brought to you by Penguin. The Extinction of Experience reveals the true cost of our digital age – and shows us how to return to the real world, while we still can. Human experiences are disappearing. Community is now found online; schools prioritise typing; and with headphones in and eyes...
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Very annoying narrator
- By Toby on 02-03-25
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The Extinction of Experience
- Reclaiming Our Humanity in a Digital World
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 23-01-25
- Language: English
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Quantum Computing Explained for Beginners
- The Science, Technology, and Impact
- By: Pantheon Space Academy
- Narrated by: Grant Benker
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Are you curious about the future of computing but confused about where to start? Are you fascinated by the quantum buzz but intimidated by dense academic jargon? I'm here to guide you through the fascinating universe of quantum tech, in the simplest way possible. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, software developer, eager student, or an innovator at heart, this book is tailored for minds like yours. I've translated qubits, quantum gates, and superposition in a refreshingly easy way, so you don't need a PhD to come along for the ride.
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Poor writing, full of misleading statements
- By Dr Stephen J. Welch on 28-01-24
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Quantum Computing Explained for Beginners
- The Science, Technology, and Impact
- Narrated by: Grant Benker
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 14-11-23
- Language: English
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Making Things Happen
- Mastering Project Management
- By: Scott Berkun
- Narrated by: Ryan Burke
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance5
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Microsoft project veteran Scott Berkun offers a collection of essays on field-tested philosophies and strategies for defining, leading, and managing projects. Each essay distills complex concepts and challenges into practical nuggets of useful advice, and the new edition now adds more value for leaders and managers of projects everywhere.
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Great, just great
- By Anonymous on 25-08-25
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Making Things Happen
- Mastering Project Management
- Narrated by: Ryan Burke
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 20-10-20
- Language: English
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Why Machines Learn
- The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI
- By: Anil Ananthaswamy
- Narrated by: Rene Ruiz
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance8
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We are living through a revolution in artificial intelligence that is not slowing down. This major shift is based on simple mathematics, some of which goes back centuries: linear algebra and calculus, the stuff of eighteenth-century mathematics. Indeed by the mid-1850s, a lot of the groundwork was all done. In this enlightening book, Anil Ananthaswamy explains the fundamental maths behind AI, which suggests that the basics of natural and artificial intelligence might follow the same mathematical rules.
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Fantastic book to understand AI
- By Liviu O on 15-03-25
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Why Machines Learn
- The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI
- Narrated by: Rene Ruiz
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 16-07-24
- Language: English
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