Artificial Intelligence | Westchester Library System

1) How to stay smart in a smart world: why human intelligence still beats algorithms

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"The book deflates the hype about AI, offering instead a balanced view of what it can and cannot do, and shows how humans can more wisely use digital technology." --

2) The loop: how technology is creating a world without choices and how to fight back

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Ward, Jake

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"An eye-opening narrative journey into the rapidly changing world of artificial intelligence by a high profile NBC technology reporter, revealing the dangerous ways that AI is poised to exploit the unconscious habits of our minds"--

3) The singularity is near: when humans transcend biology

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Kurzweil, Ray

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For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined...

4) Artificial Intelligence for Dummies

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Mueller, John Paul/ Massaron, Luca

5) Working with AI: Real Stories of Human-Machine Collaboration

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Davenport, Thomas H

6) Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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Scharre, Paul

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An NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Pick
One of the Next Big Idea Club's Must-Read Books

"An invaluable primer to arguably the most important driver of change for our future." —P. W. Singer, author of Burn-In

An award-winning defense expert tells the story of today's great power rivalry—the struggle to control artificial intelligence.

A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization

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7) I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks: Poems

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Code-davinci-002 (COR)/ Katz, Brent (EDT)/ Morgenthau, Josh (EDT)/ Rich, Simon (EDT)

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Can AI tell us its own story? Does AI have its own voice?
At a wedding in early 2022, three friends were introduced to an early, raw version of the AI model behind ChatGPT by their fellow groomsman, an OpenAI scientist.
While the world discovered ChatGPT—OpenAI's hugely popular chatbot—the friends continued to work with code-davinci-002, its darkly creative and troubling predecessor.
Over the course of a year,...

8) A world without work: technology, automation, and how we should respond

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Susskind, Daniel

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"An Oxford economics professor, Susskind has a patient delivery that benefits from his authoritative voice and scholarly view of this speculative subject...an important and eye-opening audiobook." — AudioFile Magazine

This program is read by the author.
From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it.
From mechanical looms to

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9) You look like a thing and I love you: how artificial intelligence works and why it's making the world a weirder place

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Shane, Janelle

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"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 rely on AI every day for recommendations, for translations,...

10) Meganets: how digital forces beyond our control are commandeering our daily lives and inner realities

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Auerbach, David

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"David Auerbach's exploration of the phenomenon he has identified as the meganet begins with a simple, startling revelation: There is no hand on the tiller of some of the largest global digital forces that influence our daily lives. From corporate sites such as Facebook, Amazon, Google, YouTube, Instagram, and Reddit - to the burgeoning metaverse encompassing cryptocurrencies and online gaming - to government systems such as China's Social Credit...

11) Generative Deep Learning: Teaching Machines to Paint, Write, Compose, and Play

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Foster, David

12) Prediction machines: the simple economics of artificial intelligence

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Agrawal, Ajay

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The idea of artificial intelligence--job-killing robots, self-driving cars, and self-managing organizations--captures the imagination, evoking a combination of wonder and dread for those of us who will have to deal with the consequences. But what if it'snot quite so complicated? The real job of artificial intelligence, argue these three eminent economists, is to lower the cost of prediction. And once you start talking about costs, you can use some...

13) The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning

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Friedman, Daniel P

14) Deep medicine: how artificial intelligence can make healthcare human again

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Topol, Eric J

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"Despite having access to more resources than ever, our doctors are overloaded with demands for their time and expertise. In Deep Medicine, leading physician Eric Topol shows how artificial intelligence can help. Natural-language processing can record our doctor's notes, make sense of our medical histories, and read more deeply into the scientific literature than any human ever could. Deep-learning algorithms -- applied to wearable sensors, genomic...

15) The car that knew too much: can a machine be moral?

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Bonnefon, Jean-François

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"An engaging account of the moral decision making that will be required of driverless cars"--

16) Thinking machines: the quest for artificial intelligence--and where it's taking us next

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Dormehl, Luke

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"A fascinating look at Artificial Intelligence, from its humble Cold War beginnings to the dazzling future that is just around the corner. When most of us think about Artificial Intelligence, our minds go straight to cyborgs, robots, and sci-fi thrillers where machines take over the world. But the truth is that Artificial Intelligence is already among us. It exists in our smartphones, fitness trackers, and refrigerators that tell us when the milk...

17) Heart of the machine: our future in a world of artificial emotional intelligence

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Yonck, Richard

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For Readers of Ray Kurzweil and Michio Kaku, a New Look at the Cutting Edge of Artificial Intelligence
Imagine a robotic stuffed animal that can read and respond to a child's emotional state, a commercial that can recognize and change based on a customer's facial expression, or a company that can actually create feelings as though a person were experiencing them naturally. Heart of the Machine explores the next giant step in the...

18) Death of an Author: A Novella

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Marchine, Aidan

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What happens when artificial intelligence comes for the novelists? Death of an Author is a groundbreaking, suspenseful experiment in the meta world of man meets machine.

When Gus Dupin, literary critic and scholar, finds himself invited to the funeral of Peggy Firmin, celebrated novelist and now murder victim, he is determined to find out who killed her and why. As his investigation gets underway, it is not

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19) The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

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Suleyman, Mustafa/ Bhaskar, Michael

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind
“A fascinating, well-written, and important book.”—Yuval Noah Harari
“Essential reading.”—Daniel...

20) Atlas of AI: power, politics, and the planetary costs of artificial intelligence

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Crawford, Kate

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Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the minerals drawn from the earth, to the labor pulled from low-wage information workers, to the data taken from every action and expression. This book shows how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased inequity. Rather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms, Crawford offers us a material and political perspective on what it takes to...