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The Age of AI
- Author
- Daniel Huttenlocher
- Narrator
- Eric Pollins
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Publish Date
- 2 November 2021
- Run Time
- 7 hours 13 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human society—and what this technology means for us all.
An AI learned to win chess by making moves human grand masters had never conceived. Another AI discovered a new antibiotic by analyzing molecular properties human scientists did not understand. Now, AI-powered jets are defeating experienced human pilots in simulated dogfights. AI is coming online in searching, streaming, medicine, education, and many other fields and, in so doing, transforming how humans are experiencing reality.In The Age of AI, three leading thinkers have come together to consider how AI will change our relationships with knowledge, politics, and the societies in which we live. The Age of AI is an essential roadmap to our present and our future, an era unlike any that has come before.
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Details
- Author
- Daniel Huttenlocher
- Narrator
- Eric Pollins
- Duration
- 7 hours 13 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 November 2021
- ISBN
- 9781549108570
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Genre
- Central / national / federal government policies, Science funding and policy, Impact of science and technology on society, Artificial intelligence, Impact of science and technology on society
Synopsis
Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human society—and what this technology means for us all. An AI learned to win chess by making moves human grand masters had never conceived. Another AI discovered a new antibiotic by analyzing molecular properties human scientists did not understand. Now, AI-powered jets are defeating experienced human pilots in simulated dogfights. AI is coming online in searching, streaming, medicine, education, and many other fields and, in so doing, transforming how humans are experiencing reality.In The Age of AI, three leading thinkers have come together to consider how AI will change our relationships with knowledge, politics, and the societies in which we live. The Age of AI is an essential roadmap to our present and our future, an era unlike any that has come before.
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