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AI Snake Oil
- What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
- By: Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
- Narrated by: Landon Woodson
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Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You’re not alone. AI is everywhere—and few things are surrounded by so much hype, misinformation, and misunderstanding. In AI Snake Oil, computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor cut through the confusion to give you an essential understanding of how AI works, why it often doesn’t, where it might be useful or harmful, and when you should suspect that companies are using AI hype to sell AI snake oil—products that don’t work, and probably never will.
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AI Snake Oil
- What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
- Narrated by: Landon Woodson
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 24-09-24
- Language: English
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The Long History of the Future
- By: Nicole Kobie
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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For decades we've delighted in dreaming about a sci-fi utopia, from flying cars and bionic humans to hoverboards; with driverless cars first proposed at the 1939 World's Fair. And why not? Building a better world, be it a free-flying commute or an automated urban lifestyle is a worthy dream. Given the pace of technological change, nothing seems impossible anymore. But why are these innovations always out of reach? Delving into the history of technology, this book also looks at what lies ahead, showing how the origins of our technology may provide insight into how it realistically evolves.
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The Long History of the Future
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 22-08-24
- Language: English
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The Unplugged Hours
- Cultivating a Life of Presence in a Digitally Connected World
- By: Hannah Brencher
- Narrated by: Hannah Brencher
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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In the spring of 2021, Hannah Brencher found herself depleted and exhausted--and she knew the culprit was her constantly plugged-in lifestyle. Like so many of us, Hannah had been turning to her phone to cope with life in a time of isolation and uncertainty. Those coping mechanisms had calcified into habits she didn't know how to break. Sound familiar? That's when the nudge happened. Turn off your phone and keep turning off your phone. And a challenge was born: 1,000 unplugged hours in one year.
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The Unplugged Hours
- Cultivating a Life of Presence in a Digitally Connected World
- Narrated by: Hannah Brencher
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 17-09-24
- Language: English
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How AI Will Change Your Life
- A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World
- By: Patrick Dixon
- Length: 10 hrs
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In this punchy, follow-up to his bestselling The Future of (Almost) Everything, leading futurologist Patrick Dixon has written an in-depth but accessible exploration of AI, looking at the future of the subject and assessing both threats and benefits - from health and education to cybersecurity, business and the world of work.
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How AI Will Change Your Life
- A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 12-09-24
- Language: English
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These Strange New Minds
- How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
- By: Christopher Summerfield
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Thanks to recent advances in AI, humans have entered a world where we are no longer the sole custodians of knowledge. A new wave of disarmingly human-like chatbots, such as ChatGPT, Claude and Bard, appear to be able to talk and reason like us - and are beginning to transform everything we do. It is vital we understand how they work. Can AI ‘think’, 'know' and ‘understand’? What are its values? Whose biases is it perpetuating? Can it lie and if so, could we tell? Does their arrival threaten our very existence?
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These Strange New Minds
- How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 13-03-25
- Language: English
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Feeding the Machine
- The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
- By: James Muldoon, Mark Graham, Callum Cant
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of millions that labour under often appalling conditions to make AI possible. Feeding the Machine presents an urgent, riveting investigation of the intricate network of organisations that maintain this exploitative system, revealing the untold truth of AI.
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Feeding the Machine
- The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 18-07-24
- Language: English
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- How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
- By: Kate Conger, Ryan Mac
- Length: Not Yet Known
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Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk’s unprecedented hostile takeover of Twitter and the forty-four-billion-dollar deal’s seismic political, social, and financial fallout. This is the defining story of our time told with uncommon style and peerless rigor. In a world of viral ideas and emotion, who gets to control the narrative, who gets to be heard, and what does power really cost?
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- How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 19-09-24
- Language: English
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The Mind's Mirror
- Risk and Reward in the Age of AI
- By: Gregory Mone, Daniela Rus
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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Imagine a technology capable of discovering new drugs in days instead of years, helping scientists map distant galaxies and decode the language of whales, and aiding the rest of us in mundane daily tasks, from drafting email responses to preparing dinner. Now consider that this same technology poses risks to our jobs and society as a whole. Artificial Intelligence is no longer science fiction; it is upending our world today.
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The Mind's Mirror
- Risk and Reward in the Age of AI
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 27-08-24
- Language: English
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Supremacy
- AI, ChatGPT and the Race that will Change the World
- By: Parmy Olson
- Length: 9 hrs
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It took Facebook four years to reach 100 million users. ChatGPT, released in November 2022, did it in two months. The founders of the two companies behind the most advanced AIs in existence – San Francisco-based OpenAI and London-based DeepMind – started their journeys determined to solve humanity’s greatest problems. Supremacy is the astonishing, behind-the-scenes story of the battle between these two AI companies, their struggles to use their tech for good, and the dangerous direction that they’re now going in.
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Supremacy
- AI, ChatGPT and the Race that will Change the World
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 12-09-24
- Language: English
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Inteligencia artificial
- Guía para seres pensantes
- By: Melanie Mitchell
- Length: 9 hrs
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Ninguna empresa científica reciente ha resultado tan seductora, aterradora y llena de extravagantes promesas y frustrantes reveses como la IA. La galardonada científica informática Melanie Mitchell revela su turbulenta historia, la reciente oleada de aparentes éxitos, las grandes esperanzas y temores que la rodean, y las cuestiones más urgentes hoy: ¿hasta qué punto son realmente inteligentes los programas de IA? ¿Qué pueden hacer realmente? ¿Hasta qué punto esperamos que se asemejen a los humanos y cuándo debemos preocuparnos de que nos superen?
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Inteligencia artificial
- Guía para seres pensantes
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 11-03-25
- Language: Spanish
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Viral Voices
- From TED Talks to TikTok, Persuasive Communication Skills for the Digital Age
- By: Carmine Gallo
- Narrated by: Carmine Gallo
- Length: 5 hrs
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Viral Voices: From TED Talks to TikTok, Persuasive Communication Skills for the Digital Age by Carmine Gallo is a forthcoming audio-original from Macmillan Audio.
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Viral Voices
- From TED Talks to TikTok, Persuasive Communication Skills for the Digital Age
- Narrated by: Carmine Gallo
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 04-03-25
- Language: English
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Pacific Circuit
- By: Alexis Madrigal
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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In Pacific Circuit, the award-winning journalist Alexis Madrigal sculpts an intricate tableau of the city of Oakland that is at once a groundbreaking big-idea book, a deeply researched work of social and political history, and an intimate portrait of an essential American city that has been at the crossroads of the defining themes of the twenty-first century.
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Pacific Circuit
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 18-03-25
- Language: English
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Animals, Robots, Gods
- Adventures in the Moral Imagination
- By: Webb Keane
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In Animals, Robots, Gods, acclaimed anthropologist Webb Keane provides a new vision of ethics, defined less by our minds, religion or society, and more by our interactions with those around us. Drawing on ground-breaking research by fieldworkers around the world, he explores the underpinnings of our moral universe. Along the way we investigate the ethical dilemmas of South Asian animal rights activists, Balinese cockfighters, Japanese robot fanciers -- even macho cowboys.
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Animals, Robots, Gods
- Adventures in the Moral Imagination
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 29-08-24
- Language: English
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