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7 produkter
- Nyhet
The Agi Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
352 kr
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191 kr
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- Nyhet
235 kr
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THE AGI CHRONICLES is not a futurist manifesto, an academic chin-stroker, a corporate biography, or a self-help manual. It’s the inside story of the birth of AGI, as told by the people who are bringing it into existence, or trying to stop it from coming into existence, and who are grappling with the consequences before anyone else.Building Artificial General Intelligence – a machine that is as smart or smarter than humans, at everything our brains can do – has been the goal for the world’s biggest technology companies for about the last decade, and it is probably the most consequential technological project in history. Only a few hundred people are fully awake to what’s actually happening on the AI frontier, or how short the timelines are. Powerful AI will reshape society – and most governments and big corporations already view this conclusion as obvious, as evidenced by the trillions of dollars they’re spending to get there first. New York Times journalist Kevin Roose may be the only person who can tell this story. He has put his life on hold, gone to the heart of the action, interviewed those who have been involved in building this technology, digging up secrets and putting together the first major behind-the-scenes account of this race.And the people building powerful AI are much, much weirder than you’d think. If you dig beneath the corporate veneers, the AI scene here is full of messianic claims, cult-like dynamics, and a degree of belief in the inevitability and imminence of powerful AI that can strike the uninitiated as genuinely insane.This is gripping, characterful, first draft of history that reads like a non-fiction thriller, for readers of THE BIG SHORT, CARELESS PEOPLE and AMERICAN PROMETHEUS. It’s the book that people will turn to one hundred years from now as a defining account of the moment our species was changed for ever.
- Nyhet
179 kr
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THE AGI CHRONICLES is not a futurist manifesto, an academic chin-stroker, a corporate biography, or a self-help manual. It’s the inside story of the birth of AGI, as told by the people who are bringing it into existence, or trying to stop it from coming into existence, and who are grappling with the consequences before anyone else.Building Artificial General Intelligence – a machine that is as smart or smarter than humans, at everything our brains can do – has been the goal for the world’s biggest technology companies for about the last decade, and it is probably the most consequential technological project in history. Only a few hundred people are fully awake to what’s actually happening on the AI frontier, or how short the timelines are. Powerful AI will reshape society – and most governments and big corporations already view this conclusion as obvious, as evidenced by the trillions of dollars they’re spending to get there first. New York Times journalist Kevin Roose may be the only person who can tell this story. He has put his life on hold, gone to the heart of the action, interviewed those who have been involved in building this technology, digging up secrets and putting together the first major behind-the-scenes account of this race.And the people building powerful AI are much, much weirder than you’d think. If you dig beneath the corporate veneers, the AI scene here is full of messianic claims, cult-like dynamics, and a degree of belief in the inevitability and imminence of powerful AI that can strike the uninitiated as genuinely insane.This is gripping, characterful, first draft of history that reads like a non-fiction thriller, for readers of THE BIG SHORT, CARELESS PEOPLE and AMERICAN PROMETHEUS. It’s the book that people will turn to one hundred years from now as a defining account of the moment our species was changed for ever.
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'If Martin Scorsese's film The Wolf of Wall Street is about the finance industry's greediest adults, Kevin Roose's Young Money is a look at those wolves as cubs' Amazon.com 'Best Book of the Month'Every year, thousands of eager graduates are hired by the world's financial giants, where they're taught the secrets of making obscene amounts of money -- as well as how to dress, talk, date, drink, and schmooze like real financiers. Young Money is the exclusive, inside story of this well-guarded world. Investigative reporter Kevin Roose shadows eight rookies as they are exposed to the exhausting workloads, huge bonuses, and recreational drugs that have always characterized Wall Street life. But they experience something new, too: an industry forever changed by the massive financial collapse of 2008. And as they get their Wall Street educations, they face hard questions about morality, prestige, and the value of their work.'A great new read that doubles as a post-crash update to Michael Lewis' Liar's Poker - Mother Jones'A fun fast read that will make you laugh out loud' Fortune Magazine
143 kr
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A New York Times bestselling author and tech columnist's counter-intuitive guide to staying relevant - and employable - in the machine age by becoming irreplaceably human.It's not a future scenario any more. We've been taught that to compete with automation and AI, we'll have to become more like the machines themselves, building up technical skills like coding. But, there's simply no way to keep up. What if all the advice is wrong? And what do we need to do instead to become futureproof?We tend to think of automation as a blue-collar phenomenon that will affect truck drivers, factory workers, and other people with repetitive manual jobs. But it's much, much broader than that. Lawyers are being automated out of existence. Last year, JPMorgan Chase built a piece of software called COIN, which uses machine learning to review complicated contracts and documents. It used to take the firm's lawyers more than 300,000 hours every year to review all of those documents. Now, it takes a few seconds, and requires just one human to run the program. Doctors are being automated out of existence, too. Last summer, a Chinese tech company built a deep learning algorithm that diagnosed brain cancer and other diseases faster and more accurately than a team of 15 top Chinese doctors.Kevin Roose has spent the past few years studying the question of how people, communities, and organisations adapt to periods of change, from the Industrial Revolution to the present. And the insight that is sweeping through Silicon Valley as we speak -- that in an age dominated by machines, it's human skills that really matter - is one of the more profound and counter-intuitive ideas he's discovered. It's the antidote to the doom-and-gloom worries many people feel when they think about AI and automation. And it's something everyone needs to hear.In nine accessible, prescriptive chapters, Roose distills what he has learned about how we will survive the future, that the way to become futureproof is to become incredibly, irreplaceably human.