Technology Machine

Behind every great revolution is a vision, and behind perhaps the greatest revolution of our time, personal computing, is the vision of J.C.R. Licklider. In a simultaneously compelling personal narrative and comprehensive historical exposition, Waldrop tells the story of the man who not only instigated the work that led to the internet, but also shifted our understanding of what computers were and could be.

Brought to you by Penguin. How a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human In Against the Machine, “furiously gifted” (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original—and terrifying—account of...

In The Second Machine Age MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee—two thinkers at the forefront of their field—reveal the forces driving the reinvention of our lives and our economy. As the full impact of digital technologies is felt, we will realize immense bounty in the form of dazzling personal technology, advanced infrastructure, and near-boundless access to the cultural items that enrich our lives. Amid this bounty will also be wrenching change. Recent economic indicators reflect this shift: fewer people are working, and wages are falling even as productivity and profits soar.

Artificial intelligence does the seemingly impossible - driving cars, trading stocks, and teaching children. But facing the sea change that AI will bring can be paralyzing. How should companies set strategies, governments design policies, and people plan their lives for a world so different from what we know? In Prediction Machines, three eminent economists recast the rise of AI as a drop in the cost of prediction. With this single, masterful stroke, they lift the curtain on the AI-is-magic hype and show how basic tools from economics provide clarity about the AI revolution and a basis for action by CEOs, managers, policy makers, investors, and entrepreneurs.

It seems that just about every new technology that we bring to bear on improving our lives brings with it some downside, side effect, or unintended consequence. These issues can pose very real and growing ethical problems for all of us. For example, automated facial recognition can make life easier and safer for us—but it also poses huge issues with regard to privacy, ownership of data, and even identity theft. Technology Is Not Neutral addresses one of today’s most pressing problems: How to create and use tools and technologies to maximize benefits and minimize harms.

In The Experimentation Machine, HBS professor, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist Jeffrey J. Bussgang reveals how AI is transforming the way startups find product-market fit and scale.

Power On Your Machine walks absolute beginners through every step of building a custom computer from scratch. If you’ve ever looked inside a PC case and felt intimidated by the cables, chips, and unfamiliar terms, this audiobook breaks everything down into simple, clear language anyone can understand.

In this updated and expanded edition of Human + Machine—including a new chapter on gen AI—Daugherty and Wilson show that the essence of the AI paradigm shift is the transformation of all business processes within an organization, whether related to breakthrough innovation, everyday customer service, or personal productivity habits. As humans and smart machines collaborate ever more closely, work processes become more fluid and adaptive, enabling companies to change them on the fly—or completely reimagine them.

In The Second Machine Age, Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson predicted some of the far-reaching effects of digital technologies on our lives and businesses. Now they’ve written a guide to help listeners make the most of our collective future. Machine | Platform | Crowd outlines the opportunities and challenges inherent in the science fiction technologies that have come to life in recent years, like self-driving cars and 3D printers, online platforms for renting outfits and scheduling workouts, or crowd-sourced medical research and financial instruments.

Knowledge graphs model relationships between the objects, events, situations, and concepts in your domain so you can readily identify important patterns in your own data and make better decisions. Paired up with LLMs, they promise huge potential for working with structured and unstructured enterprise data, building recommendation systems, developing fraud detection mechanisms, delivering customer service chatbots, or more. This book provides tools and techniques for efficiently organizing data, modeling a knowledge graph, and incorporating KGs into the functioning of LLMs—and vice versa.

You’re stuck. More educated and capable than any generation before, yet somehow poorer, tighter on time, and watching others build wealth while you optimize routines. The 9-to-5 is already dead—but nobody told you what’s replacing it. ChatGPT Cash Machine reveals the exact blueprint creating financial freedom for complete beginners. No coding or technical skills—just frameworks that turn AI from productivity tool to profit engine.

This book is your ultimate guide to mastering ChatGPT and using it to its full potential. With in-depth coverage of GPT 2, GPT 3, and GPT 4, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the most cutting-edge technology in the world of AI-based text generation.

From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among society’s members.

Did you know that ChatGPT already boasts a community of over 100 million users? That's 100 million opportunities to make a splash in a still-young market. So, if you're tired of sitting on the sidelines, watching others take the prize, this guide is your game-changer, your treasure map, and your ticket to the big leagues — all powered by ChatGPT.

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Every morning, billions of people drag themselves out of bed to perform tasks that a machine could do better, faster, and without existential dread. They commute for hours, attend meetings that could have been emails, fill out forms that no one reads, and return home too exhausted to wonder why. They were told this was life. They were told wrong. The Career Redundancy in the Age of Intelligent Machines is a provocative manifesto that refuses to pretend the crisis of work and education is a problem to be managed. It is a liberation to be seized.

A defense technology expert and military leader reveals the future of robotic warfare, and illuminates the path to navigate the approaching storm of global change.

That's not a hypothetical. It's exactly how Amazon Web Services (AWS) scaled to $107 billion, and it's how Fortune 500 companies are winning today. This book shows you how. You're likely facing these challenges: AI pilots stuck in demo mode, consultants selling slideware, and mounting board pressure. Technology debt is bleeding your budget and slowing your team. You need a proven approach, not more theory.

You're doing the work of a media company with the resources of one person. Filming, scripting, editing, posting, engaging, analyzing, monetizing — and somewhere around hour twelve of the week, the same thought surfaces: there has to be a better way to do this. There is. But it's not another content calendar. Not a better editing workflow. Not a list of ChatGPT prompts to speed up your captions. It's the system nobody told you was possible to build alone. AI Content Machine delivers the operating system for a one-person content business.

Artificial Intelligence Explained: A Beginner’s Guide to AI, Machine Learning, and the Future of Technology is a clear and engaging introduction to the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence. Designed for listeners with little to no technical background, this book breaks down complex concepts into easy-to-understand explanations, helping listeners discover how AI works, where it is used, and how it is shaping the modern world.