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AI Snake Oil
From two of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI--and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products 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 and 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. While acknowledging the potential of some AI, such as ChatGPT, AI Snake Oil uncovers rampant misleading claims about the capabilities of AI and describes the serious harms AI is already causing in how it's being built, marketed, and used in areas such as education, medicine, hiring, banking, insurance, and criminal justice. The book explains the crucial differences between types of AI, why organizations are falling for AI snake oil, why AI can't fix social media, why AI isn't an existential risk, and why we should be far more worried about what people will do with AI than about anything AI will do on its own. The book also warns of the dangers of a world where AI continues to be controlled by largely unaccountable big tech companies. By revealing AI's limits and real risks, AI Snake Oil will help you make better decisions about whether and how to use AI at work and home.
The Metaverse
This book explores whether the Metaverse - understood here as a persistent, immersive, and widely utilized, virtual world - will be the next chapter in the evolution of cyberspace, and what that means for people, business, and society. The Metaverse. Depending on your perspective, it's the future of the Internet, the next generation of video games, or "a deeply uncomfortable, worse version of Zoom." In many ways, the confusion, overpromising, and hype are reminiscent of how the Internet itself was envisioned in earlier epochs. A diverse range of firms are investing in Metaverse tech, causing a digital gold rush. There is plausibly a substantial first-mover advantage to be won, which Forbes has estimated to be north of a $1 trillion revenue opportunity. But there have also been questions raised about the utility of the Metaverse, with many firms, including Disney and Meta itself, pivoting to AI even as others like Apple release new products doubling down on spatial computing. In the trademark question-and-answer style of the What Everyone Needs to Know(R) series, this book provides an understanding of what the Metaverse is, how it is different from virtual and augmented reality, and the emerging Metaverse economy. It looks at media, politics, speech, crime and security, and identity and privacy in the Metaverse. It explores how governance and law operate -- or may operate -- in the Metaverse, the rights of bots, and our Meta future. The stakes are high, and confusion abounds, particularly in the public, making The Metaverse a perfect addition to the What Everyone Needs to Know(R) series.
Artificial Insect-Inspired Vision for Autonomous Systems
This book offers a straightforward explanation of groundbreaking artificial vision technology, which can provide limitless scalable resolution and lens-less, human-like vision with electronic control over focus, field of view, and direction. This advanced technology addresses the challenge of rapidly transferring large volumes of visual data for remote imaging systems.It also presents the novel artificial eye concept, the foundation of this vision technology. This eye can serve as a wearable device for visually impaired individuals, eliminating the need for surgery or implants. It offers significant advancements in long-distance vision with high resolution and automatic recognition of surrounding objects.The book also provides a concise overview of the architecture and benefits of nature-inspired antenna arrays and their potential applications, enhancing the reader's understanding and the importance of the presented vision technology.Richly illustrated with colorful diagrams and straightforward explanations, this book is designed to facilitate understanding for readers with engineering backgrounds, customers, and students.
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction--but it's not too late to change course, as two of the field's earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity. "May prove to be the most important book of our time."--Tim Urban, Wait But Why In 2023, hundreds of AI luminaries signed an open letter warning that artificial intelligence poses a serious risk of human extinction. Since then, the AI race has only intensified. Companies and countries are rushing to build machines that will be smarter than any person. And the world is devastatingly unprepared for what would come next. For decades, two signatories of that letter--Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares--have studied how smarter-than-human intelligences will think, behave, and pursue their objectives. Their research says that sufficiently smart AIs will develop goals of their own that put them in conflict with us--and that if it comes to conflict, an artificial superintelligence would crush us. The contest wouldn't even be close. How could a machine superintelligence wipe out our entire species? Why would it want to? Would it want anything at all? In this urgent book, Yudkowsky and Soares walk through the theory and the evidence, present one possible extinction scenario, and explain what it would take for humanity to survive. The world is racing to build something truly new under the sun. And if anyone builds it, everyone dies. "The best no-nonsense, simple explanation of the AI risk problem I've ever read."--Yishan Wong, Former CEO of Reddit
Computational Technologies and Electronics
This two-volume set, CCIS 2376 and CCIS 2377, constitutes proceedings from the First International Conference on Computational Technologies and Electronics, ICCTE 2023, held in Siliguri, India, during November 23-25, 2023. The 46 full papers presented here were carefully selected and reviewed from 114 submissions. These papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Pat I- Pattern recognition & AI Part II- Data communication & security; Applied electronics.
Inevitable
Modern science has done an extremely good job of getting to the bottom of a number of tough problems in information theory and the study of cognition. It is therefore surprising to see that the concept of artificial intelligence has derailed into speculation about intelligent machines. This book presents a contrasting vision of the future of intelligence. Instead of assuming that artificial general intelligence is on the way, the time has come to reconsider the way we think about AI in light of the facts that emerge from a careful study of the intelligence found in living minds.AI is a mere computer program, but it is special because it can quickly navigate the digital records human beings have been making as we share our culture, our ideas, and our thoughts with one another online and via literature & speech. Minds are the origin of the material that large language models are made out of, but too many researchers have reached the wrong conclusions about the differences between biological intelligence and artificial intelligence. INEVITABLE: Distributed Cognition & Network Superintelligence is written to explore the ways in which people are already using network technologies to organize and share a staggering amount of information with each other.Enter the vision of a future in which people have learned to proactively organize around our shared bodies of knowledge, of collective human intelligence. Language brings us the ability to share our mental processes with other people around the world as we build our social networks and move forward into an ever-more-connected way of life. Providing individuals with ever-increasing access to information has been a developing goal of modern technology for some time now. As distributed systems technologies improve, it will become increasingly important to maintain the shared collective human intelligence.
Sustainable Cloud Development
Reduce cloud costs and carbon footprint with sustainable design, GenAI, and green architecture principlesKey Features: - Discover sustainable cloud practices, including carbon footprint analysis, optimization, and security- Explore best practices, insights, and case studies for implementing sustainable solutions like generative AI workloads- Learn cost-saving strategies through efficient resource use and business alignment- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook Description: Written by three seasoned AWS solution architects, sustainability mentors, and thought leaders, Sustainable Cloud Development equips cloud professionals with actionable strategies to design, build, and optimize workloads that minimize environmental impact, while maintaining performance and scalability.This book combines practical insights, best practices, and case studies to help you align your cloud operations with global sustainability goals. From foundational concepts such as carbon footprint measurement to advanced techniques such as sustainable software architecture, generative AI lifecycle optimization, and cost-efficient cloud practices, this book covers every aspect of sustainable cloud development. You'll get to grips with key tools, including AWS Cost Explorer, for analyzing costs and usage over time to right-size deployments; auto scaling for automatically scaling compute resources dynamically based on demand; Amazon Trusted Advisor for reviewing optimization recommendations across critical areas such as cost, performance, and security; and Amazon CloudWatch for detailed monitoring and threshold-based alerting around all resources and applications.This book serves as a practical blueprint for optimizing your cloud workloads for both high performance and a minimal environmental footprint.What You Will Learn: - Explore the principles of sustainable cloud computing and application performance analysis- Discover best practices for data lifecycle management, storage optimization, and networking efficiency- Understand and analyze the carbon footprint of cloud applications- Implement sustainable software architecture and coding patterns- Optimize the lifecycle and consumption of generative AI models- Align cloud services with sustainability goals and global regulations- Explore eco-friendly generative AI practices, including efficient model deploymentWho this book is for: This book is for cloud architects, engineers, DevOps professionals, and IT sustainability specialists who want to align their cloud practices with environmental goals. It also caters to software developers eager to build green, efficient solutions. A basic understanding of cloud services and IT infrastructure is necessary.Table of Contents- Foundations of Sustainable Cloud Computing and Carbon Footprint Analysis- Energy and Compute Efficiency in Cloud Infrastructure- Sustainable Data Management and Storage Optimization- Network Optimization for Sustainability- Security, Observability, and Monitoring in Sustainable Cloud Development- Sustainable Software Architecture and Design Patterns- Sustainable DevOps and CI/CD Practices- Sustainable DevOps, Container, and CI/CD Practices- Cost Optimization through Sustainable Operation- Optimizing the GenAI Lifecycle for Sustainability- Optimizing the Consumption of GenAI Foundational Models- Case Studies and Best Practices- Pillars of a Sustainable Technology Future
Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2024, held in Zakopane, Poland, during June 16-20, 2024. The 96 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 179 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: Part I -neural networks and their applications;pattern classification. Part II -evolutionary algorithms and their applications;artificial intelligence in modeling and simulation;computer vision, image and speech analysis. Part III - various problems of artificial intelligence;bioinformatics, biometrics and medical applications.
Discovering Drift Phenomena in Evolving Landscapes
This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the First International Workshop on Discovering Drift Phenomena in Evolving Landscapes, DELTA 2024, held in Barcelona, Spain, on August 26, 2024. The 9 full papers presented together with 1 short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. The papers are grouped into three topical sections, namely: adaptive and robust learning in dynamic environments; challenges and solutions in drift detection and anomaly explanation; and innovative approaches to concept drift detection and landscape shifts.
Considerations on the AI Endgame
This seminal volume offers an interdisciplinary exploration into the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence and its societal implications. Written by leading scholars Soenke Ziesche and Roman V. Yampolskiy, the book delves into a multitude of topics that address the rapid technological advancements in AI and the ethical dilemmas that arise as a result.The topics explored range from an in-depth look at AI welfare science and policy frameworks to the mathematical underpinnings of machine intelligence. These subjects include discussions on preserving our personal identity in technological contexts as well as on the question of AI identity, innovative proposals towards the critical AI value alignment problem and a call to merge Western and non-Western approaches towards universal AI ethics. The work also introduces unconventional yet crucial angles, such as the concept of 'ikigai' in AI ethics and a pioneering attempt to map a potential AI-driven ikigai universe as well as the role of design formalization, or 'Designometry, ' in the creation of artifacts.By offering a balanced mix of theoretical and applied insights, the book serves as an invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, and anyone interested in the future of AI and the extent of its impact on society.
Low Field Pediatric Brain Magnetic Resonance Image Segmentation and Quality Assurance
This open access LNCS volume 15515 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First MICCAI Challenge on Low Field Pediatric Brain Magnetic Resonance Image Segmentation and Quality Assurance, LISA 2024, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2024, in Marrakesh, Morocco, in October 2024. The 6 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 8 submissions. This MICCAI Challenge focuses on the development and evaluation of automatic image analysis and machine learning algorithms and Ultra-low-field brain imaging has the potential to become a transformative tool for both clinical and research applications.
Microsoft 365 Office All-In-One for Dummies
Supercharge your productivity at the office and at home Looking to familiarize yourself with the world's most popular and effective productivity apps? Then look no further than the latest edition of Office 365 All-in-One For Dummies, packed with 9 mini-books covering each of the super-apps included in the famous productivity suite from Microsoft. In the books, you'll get a handle on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Access, and more. This convenient and authoritative collection will walk you through how to create and edit text documents in Word, make new spreadsheets in Excel, and set up virtual meetings in Teams. You'll also learn how to: Use pro-level keyboard shortcuts and speed techniques to accelerate your productivity Use Microsoft's new AI-powered Copilot to get help and even write and edit your documents Leverage SharePoint and OneDrive to share documents and collaborate remotely with colleagues Office 365 All-in-One For Dummies is the first and last resource you'll need to reach for when you've got a question about Microsoft's ubiquitous productivity tools. It's perfect for newbies looking to get started and power users looking for fresh tips on the latest features. Grab your copy today!
Handbook of Disruptive Technologies
This handbook addresses how smart operations, management, and healthcare can be used to detect and analyze supply chain problems, business problems, and diseases. It also discusses the underlying methodologies and related security concerns.Handbook of Disruptive Technologies: Operations, Business, Management, and Healthcare provides updated and timely insights, unique approaches or frameworks, practical applications, and case studies. It provides in-depth knowledge of disruptive technologies and applies data analytics to different areas to solve complex situations. The handbook uses data analytics in decision-making and policy framing and identifies practices and applications of disruptive technologies that can assist organizations in gaining a competitive advantage. Valuable insights, innovative approaches, practical applications, and case studies can be found in this handbook as it effectively consolidates and synthesizes information to provide a comprehensive understanding of the subject matter.This book is tailored for researchers, academics, and professionals seeking to deepen their knowledge in the field.
Considerations on the AI Endgame
This seminal volume offers an interdisciplinary exploration into the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence and its societal implications. Written by leading scholars Soenke Ziesche and Roman V. Yampolskiy, the book delves into a multitude of topics that address the rapid technological advancements in AI and the ethical dilemmas that arise as a result.The topics explored range from an in-depth look at AI welfare science and policy frameworks to the mathematical underpinnings of machine intelligence. These subjects include discussions on preserving our personal identity in technological contexts as well as on the question of AI identity, innovative proposals towards the critical AI value alignment problem and a call to merge Western and non-Western approaches towards universal AI ethics. The work also introduces unconventional yet crucial angles, such as the concept of 'ikigai' in AI ethics and a pioneering attempt to map a potential AI-driven ikigai universe as well as the role of design formalization, or 'Designometry, ' in the creation of artifacts.By offering a balanced mix of theoretical and applied insights, the book serves as an invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, and anyone interested in the future of AI and the extent of its impact on society.
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Artificial Psychology
The success of predictive large language models (PLLMs) like GPT3 and ChatGPT has created both enthusiasts and skeptics of their widespread practical applications, but this book argues that the larger significance of such models is contained in what they suggest about human cognition. To explore this potential, the book develops a thought experiment called the Prediction Room, a reference to John Searle's influential Chinese Room argument, in which a human agent processes language by following a set of opaque written rules without possessing an inherent understanding of the language. The book proposes a new Room model--the Prediction Room with its resident Prediction Agent--generalizing the working of large language models. Working through a wide range of topics in cognitive science, the book challenges the conclusion of Searle's thought experiment, that discredited contemporary artificial intelligences (AI), through the suggestion that the Prediction Room offers a means of exploring how new ideas in AI can provide productive alternatives to traditional understandings of human cognition. In considering the implications of this, the book reviews an array of topics and issues in cognitive science to uncover new ideas and reinforce older ideas about the mental mechanisms involved in both sides. The discussion of these topics in the book serves two purposes. First, it aims to stimulate new thinking about familiar topics like language acquisition or the nature and acquisition of concepts. Second, by contrasting human psychology with the form of artificial psychology these models exhibit, it uncovers how new directions in the development of these systems can be better explored.
Immersive Learning Research Network
This book constitutes the proceedings of the10th International Conference on Immersive Learning, iLRN 2024, held in Glasgow, UK during June 10-13, 2024. The 30 full papers and 13 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 144 submissions. They were categorized under the topical section as follows: Part I: Foundations in Immersive Learning Research and Theory; Assessment and Evaluation (A&E); Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM); Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access, and Social Justice (IDEAS); STEM Education (STEM); Medical & Healthcare Education (MHE); Workforce Development & Industry Training (WDIT); Self and Co-regulated Learning with Immersive Learning Environments (SCILE). Part II: Special Track 1: Immersive learning across Latin America: State of Research, Use Cases and Projects; Special Track 2: Sustainable Development and Immerse Learning in the Climate Emergency; Special Track 3: Literacy Equity and Immersive Learning.
Immersive Learning Research Network
This book constitutes the proceedings of the10th International Conference on Immersive Learning, iLRN 2024, held in Glasgow, UK during June 10-13, 2024. The 30 full papers and 13 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 144 submissions. They were categorized under the topical section as follows: Part I: Foundations in Immersive Learning Research and Theory; Assessment and Evaluation (A&E); Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM); Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access, and Social Justice (IDEAS); STEM Education (STEM); Medical & Healthcare Education (MHE); Workforce Development & Industry Training (WDIT); Self and Co-regulated Learning with Immersive Learning Environments (SCILE). Part II: Special Track 1: Immersive learning across Latin America: State of Research, Use Cases and Projects; Special Track 2: Sustainable Development and Immerse Learning in the Climate Emergency; Special Track 3: Literacy Equity and Immersive Learning.
Reimagining Literacy in the Age of AI
This volume assesses the critical intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and literacy education. Drawing on the concept of "living literacies," it explores the transformative potential of AI in literacy practices, offering a comprehensive narrative that bridges theoretical frameworks with practical applications.The book goes beyond the conventional understanding of AI literacy as mere technological proficiency. Instead, it positions AI as a catalyst for expansive, inclusive, and multifaceted literacy practices in the digital age. Scholars from different parts of the world examine how AI is not just changing what we read and write but how we think, create, and express ourselves in a post-human context.KEY FEATURES Explores AI literacy that encompasses critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and creative expression Offers insights into the role of educators and researchers in cultivating AI literacy among learners Discusses how creativity and identity intertwine with AI literacy Suggests practical approaches to integrating AI into classroom instruction across different age groups This timely work serves as an essential guide for educators, researchers, and learners by navigating the evolving terrain of literacy in a world increasingly augmented by AI.
Collins International Primary Computing Teacher's Guide: Stage 6
The Collins International Primary Computing series provides in-depth coverage of the Cambridge curriculum frameworks for Primary Computing (0059) and Primary Digital Literacy (0072), as well as the UK national curriculum for Computing at primary level. The Stage 6 Teacher's Guide offers comprehensive teacher support, providing everything needed to teach with confidence using the Collins International Primary Computing Stage 6 Student's Book and Workbook. The Teacher's Guide offers a detailed lesson plan for every unit, giving guidance on how to run the session, including lesson objectives, reference to key pedagogies, mapping grids, worksheets, resource sheets, answers, support for assessing end-of-chapter projects and ' Build on this' extension activities. The accompanying downloads, available on the Collins site, includes PDF and editable Word versions of of all the resources in the Teacher's Guide, as well as source files, mapping grids, worksheets, resource sheets and recommended sites to support practical tasks with a host of resources to supplement teaching. Written by Flip Computing.
