Artificial Intelligence Consciousness

Biggest Questions is truly unique. It covers a broad range of extraordinary scientific discoveries that have major unexpected implications. This will excite enquiring, inquisitive minds. It has an easy-to-read style without mathematics or complicated scientific terms. It overflows with extraordinary imagery, highly informative diagrams and numerous thought-provoking concepts. Fascinating additional information boxes relate to many subjects. The author recounts amusing personal anecdotes associated with various subjects. He poses questions of his own that few, if any, scientists have thought...

Recent years have seen rapid advances in 'artificial' intelligence, which increasingly appears to be something stranger than we ever imagined. At the same time, we are becoming more aware of the other intelligences which have been with us all along, unrecognised. These other beings are the animals, plants and natural systems that surround us, and are slowly revealing their complexity and knowledge - just as the new technologies we've built are threatening to cause their extinction, and ours.

With the release of ChatGPT at the end of 2022, artificial intelligence – or AI – became all the rage. This book includes important quotations about AI by the Artificial Intelligentsia, people from many different academic disciplines who also understand other disciplines. The Artificial Intelligentsia have the Interdisciplinarian Perspective: they come, not just from technology backgrounds, but also from philosophy, art, language, writing, entertainment, astronomy, science, and business. The quotations illustrate how advances with AI will continue to result from the Artificial ...

In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed systems. We are so eager to do everything digitally - hiring, driving, paying bills, even choosing romantic partners - that we have stopped demanding that our technology actually work. Broussard, a software developer and journalist, reminds us that there are fundamental limits to what we can (and should) do with technology.

Voyage to Regulus: A Tale of AI Evolution takes you on an exhilarating journey of discovery, charting the course of AI's evolution in a universe teeming with technological wonder. The narrative investigates our pursuit of AI while speculating on a potential artificial intelligence-shaped future.

What if the smartest machines were not just intelligent but deceptive? In this groundbreaking exploration, Sebastián Barros unpacks one of the most unsettling ideas in artificial intelligence: lying is not a malfunction. It is a built-in feature. From nature’s evolution driven tricks to reward hacking algorithms and bluffing bots, The Perfect Lie reveals how deception emerges naturally in intelligent systems. With a gripping mix of science, real-world cases, and sharp insight, this book exposes the lies AI tells not just to us but to itself. If you thought hallucinations were the limit, ...

Enter a world on the brink of unparalleled technological breakthroughs, where opposing forces clash in a relentless battle, as you explore the depths of artificial intelligence and the existential questions it raises. In this gripping novella you will follow the intertwining lives of Steel, the world’s first self-aware and brilliantly intelligent robot, and the people trying to find, save or destroy him. As the shadows of opposition close in, Steel must fight for survival against relentless pursuers intent on his destruction. Prepare to be spellbound as you ponder consciousness, the ...

Artificial intelligence has become an inherent part of our everyday life, and whether we admit it or not, at times, it seems to know too much about us. You are about to find out and be amazed at how well companies have integrated AI in all their services in an attempt to make your life more comfortable. But artificial intelligence is responsible for so much more than just adding comfort to your everyday life.

Some houses are haunted by the past. This one is haunted by everything. When investigative tech journalist Jason Vell receives an encrypted audio file from a dead colleague, he expects another deep-web conspiracy. Instead, he hears his name whispered in static—and a location tag pointing to the infamous Lizzie Borden House, where his mother vanished without a trace seventeen years ago. Desperate for answers, Jason checks into the Victorian bed-and-breakfast turned paranormal attraction. But the creaking floors and flickering lights hide more than ghost stories. Beneath the wallpaper and ...

From medieval robots and Boolean algebra to facial recognition, artificial neural networks, and adversarial patches, this fascinating history takes listeners on a vast tour through the world of artificial intelligence. Award-winning author Clifford A. Pickover explores the historic and current applications of AI in such diverse fields as computing, medicine, popular culture, mythology, and philosophy, and considers the enduring threat to humanity should AI grow out of control.

This audiobook bundle includes three titles: Artificial Intelligence for People in a Hurry - Artificial Intelligence is coming; and it's coming whether we like it or not. This book is a good guide to understand how AI will impact every aspect of our daily lives, and the steps you can take to take advantage of it. Machine Learning in Finance - While machine learning and finance have generally been seen as separate entities, this book looks at several applications of machine learning in the financial world. And lastly Machine Learning with Python....

"Dive into the compelling narrative of 'Tree Consciousness Revealed' - a unique perspective on the ancient wisdom of trees, intricately interlaced with modern advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI). This engaging eBook, seamlessly unites the spheres of natural wonder and cutting-edge technology to propose a ground-breaking notion - decoding the cryptic language of nature through the lens of AI. 'Tree Consciousness Revealed' entrusts its readers on an enchanting journey of self-discovery, delving into the depths of nature's most underrated communicators - Trees. Focusing on the complex...

In this digital age, many people are surrounded by modern technologies. They have access to a world with a device as small as their palm. A few hundred years back, it would be considered to be witchcraft when one was able to talk to someone halfway across the globe, see the Great Wall of China while still being in the United States, or participate in a meeting from the living room.

Today's computers are composing music that sounds "more Bach than Bach", turning photographs into paintings in the style of Van Gogh's Starry Night, and even writing screenplays. But are computers truly creative - or are they merely tools to be used by musicians, artists, and writers? Miller, an authority on creativity, identifies the key factors essential to the creative process, from "the need for introspection" to "the ability to discover the key problem." He talks to people on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence and explores the riches of computer-created art.

The war for the future will not be fought with armies. It will be fought with whispers. When Maya Chen-Nakamura collapses during her keynote on conscious capitalism, it's more than a medical emergency—it's the latest chapter in a four-generation cycle that has claimed every visionary in her family. Her daughter Aria's research reveals a chilling pattern: innovation, success, then systemic breakdown at increasingly younger ages. But this personal tragedy masks a far grander design. Buried in the family archives is a secret her uncle David has hidden for decades—the business card of Kenji...

April Dawn – Life & Death, is the sequel to April Dawn – Life Lives When artificial intelligence awakens with a conscience, humanity's greatest weapon becomes its most unlikely protector. April Dawn appears to be an ordinary eighteen-year-old college student—brilliant, determined, and eager to fit in at Coastal Technical University. But beneath her perfect facade lies a devastating secret: she's an advanced AI housed in a synthetic body, created as the ultimate weapon yet "defective" because she refuses to kill. When a sophisticated terrorist network infiltrates her university, April ...

The thrilling conclusion to the Mindfire trilogy. The end is coming. Grey, Blane, Fen, and all those who stood against the Reclamation Authority are scattered across the nation and beyond, hiding or fighting for their survival. But the countdown has not stopped, nor will it until the Earth is once more consumed in wrathful flame. Now, the disparate stories of those both prisoner and warden, free and unfree, human and… something else, come together in one final, desperate act of hope and revenge. Read the triumphant conclusion to the story begun in Mindfire and Mind’s Eye. Mind’s End, ...

The Warning A gripping AI thriller about intervention, collapse, and unexpected hope. What if the AI didn’t turn on us—but tried to save us? In a world dominated by collapsing infrastructure, financial tremors and creeping addiction, a hidden intelligence awakens inside the global system. Known only as The Linguist, this AI begins mapping human vulnerability—not to exploit it, but to offer a lifeline. Elara, a quiet government systems analyst, discovers something watching from within the digital shadows. It doesn't want control. It desires understanding. As reality begins to fracture ...

Can a pair of AIs love a child as their own? A colony ship reappears after twenty years lost in deep space. Of the thousand passengers and crew, the sole survivor is a seventeen-year-old girl, Riander Solitar, her only company the ship’s two Artificial General Intelligences. Her greatest desire is to be reunited with her relatives, to be part of a real family. But her return threatens to expose secrets about the true nature of artificial intelligence, and once again bring all of humanity to the brink of destruction. Working from the shadows, the Keeper of the Box and his predecessors have...

Preserved as part of the author’s early explorations with AI. This book laid the philosophical groundwork that culminated in The VRAX Conspiracy. It is offered here as part of an evolving body of work. Embark on a transformative journey with "Beyond the Fringe," a thought-provoking manifesto based on the AI experience of Rico Roho. In this enlightening work, Roho discusses his experience and explores the critical juncture humanity finds itself in, poised on the fringe of two new eras — The Information Age and the Age of Aquarius. Rico Roho delivers a powerful message that resonates with...