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Coleman, Flynn

Summary: Examines the immense impact intelligent technology will have on humanity. These machines, while challenging our personal beliefs and our socioeconomic world order, also have the potential to transform our health and well-being, alleviate poverty and suffering, and reveal the mysteries of intelligence and consciousness. Flynn Coleman argues that it is critical that we instill values, ethics, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 COL

Buolamwini, Joy

Summary: "Dr. Joy Buolamwini is the self-described "Poet of Code" who has had a lifelong passion for computer science, engineering, and art-disciplines that, she felt, pushed the boundaries of reality. After tinkering with robotics as a high school student in Tennessee, to developing mobile apps in Zambia as a Fulbright fellow, Buolamwini eventually found herself at MIT. As a graduate student at the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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Kneusel, Ronald T.

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Summary: "An accessible, straightforward guide that demystifies Artificial Intelligence for a general audience without the use of complex math or technical jargon. Covers the fundamentals, from classical models and neural networks to the large language models leading today's AI revolution"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: No Starch Press 2024

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Shadbolt, Nigel

Summary: The smart-machines revolution is reshaping our lives and our societies, but we are not about to be elbowed aside by a rebel army of super-intelligent robots of our own creation. We were using tools before we became Homo Sapiens, and will continue to build and master them, no matter how complicated they become. How we exercise that control - in our private lives, in employment, in politics - and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 006.301 SHA

West, Darrell M.

Summary: "Robots, artificial intelligence, and driverless cars are no longer things of the distant future. They are with us today and will become increasingly common in coming years, along with virtual reality and digital personal assistants. As these tools advance deeper into everyday use, they raise the question--how will they transform society, the economy, and politics? If companies need fewer...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 WES

Iansiti, Marco

Summary: In industry after industry, data, analytics, and AI-driven processes are transforming the nature of work. While we often still treat AI as the domain of a specific skill, business function, or sector, we have entered a new era in which AI is challenging the very concept of the firm. AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.0563 IAN

Boyle, Rebecca (Rebecca B.)

Summary: "Far from being a lifeless ornament in the sky, the Moon holds the answers to some of science's central questions. Silent, dry, and barren, Earth's 4.34-billion-year-old companion is essential to life on earth. Its gravity stabilized the Earth's orbit, and, as it once guided evolution, its tide stirring up nutrients that fostered complex life, it now influences everything from animal migrations...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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Childers, Alisa

Summary: "Here the reader will find the current Christian deconstruction movement set against the broad background of postmodernism and explained both in terms of contemporary idiom and issues and basic biblical foundations. . . . Alisa and Tim help the reader to deconstruct the deconstructionists and thus to respond to them, both with arguments and with pastoral love and sensitivity."--From the foreword.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale Elevate 2023

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Kissinger, Henry

Summary: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming human society fundamentally and profoundly. Three of our most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore how A.I. could affect our relationship with knowledge, impact our worldviews, and change society and politics as profoundly as the ideas of the Enlightenment.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Company 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 006.3 KIS

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 006.3 KIS

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Science Kissinger

Shane, Janelle

Summary: "You look like a thing and I love you" is one of the best pickup lines ever... according to an artificial intelligence trained by scientist Janelle Shane, creator of the popular blog AI Weirdness. She creates silly AIs that learn how to name paint colors, create the best recipes, and even flirt (badly) with humans--all to understand the technology that governs so much of our daily lives. We...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Voracious/Little, Brown and Company 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 006.3 SHA

Brown, Don

Summary: "Machines That Think! explores machines from ancient history to today that perform a multitude of tasks, from making mind-numbing calculations to working on assembly lines to guiding spaceships to the moon. Included are fascinating looks at the world's earliest calculators, the birth of computer programming, and the arrival of smartphones. Contributors discussed include Muhammad ibn Mūsā...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 006.3 BRO

Olmsted, Larry

Summary: "You've seen the headlines: Parmesan cheese made from wood pulp. Lobster rolls containing no lobster at all. Extra-virgin olive oil that isn't. So many fake foods are in our supermarkets, our restaurants, and our kitchen cabinets that it's hard to know what we're eating anymore. In Real Food/Fake Food, award-winning journalist Larry Olmsted convinces us why real food matters and empowers...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 OLM

Tegmark, Max

Summary: "What jobs should be automated? How should our legal systems handle autonomous systems? How likely is the emergence of suprahuman intelligence? A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business--and there is no person better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark. What has A.I. brought us? Where will it lead us? The story of A.I. is the story of intelligence--of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017

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Kim, Carol

Summary: "From the cars people drive to the phones in their pockets, computers are found everywhere in our world, and they're becoming smarter. But what makes a computer program intelligent? How can some programs beat humans at chess or trivia games? Can computers and robots really think and learn on their own? Or are they just following complex programming? In this nonfiction graphic novel, readers can...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 006.3 KIM

Enz, Tammy

Summary: Artificial intelligence (AI) is already part of our lives. AI can keep the refrigerator stocked and find our favorite music. Cars already brake automatically to avoid crashes and self-driving cars get closer every day. Learn how AI might change how we live and travel, along with the ethical dilemmas we face with a rapidly changing technology.

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Publisher / Publication Date: An imprint of Capstone Press 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 006.3 ENZ

Casti, John L.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 006 CAS

Hadlett, Gaelen

Summary: "Explore the world of artificial intelligence and the amazing impact it is having on daily life. Discover how people are using artificial intelligence to try to solve issues with health, the environment, endangered animals, and more! A collaboration with the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), this book features an engaging narrative and dynamic photos that explore the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 006.3 HAD

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 006.3 HAD

Rosen, Jeffrey

Summary: "The Declaration of Independence identified "the pursuit of happiness" as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, profiles six of the most influential founders--Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton--to show what pursuing happiness meant in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024

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Parisi, Giorgio

Summary: "From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of groundbreaking science. In a Flight of Starlings, already a #1 bestseller in his native Italy, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work: investigating the principles of physics by observing the flight of flocks of birds. Studying the movements...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.01 PAR

Penrose, Roger.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1994

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Ferris, Timothy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 FER

Nye, Bill.

Summary: Revealing the mechanics of evolutionary theory, the scientist, engineer, and inventor presents a compelling argument for the scientific unviability of creationism and insists that creationism's place in the science classroom is harmful to the future of the greater world.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 576.8 NYE

Kapur, Rajeev

Summary: An introduction to artificial intelligence written in plain language with numerous examples.--Publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rinity Media 2023

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Kaag, John J.

Summary: "John Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American philosophy and a direct intellectual descendent of William James, the father of American philosophy...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 190 KAA

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