Artificial Life

The rise of artificial technology has seen a total change in the way we live our lives, interact, and function in the world. It has infiltrated our reality at every given turn and there appears to be no turning back now. Data science, advanced algorithms, and pattern recognition are now becoming so advanced, but what are the consequences for this progress and has anybody stopped to think about the potential consequences to our innate humanness and spirit?

From the epic of Gilgamesh to the alchemy of the Philosopher’s stone, humanity’s quest for immortality – and its rejuvenation tricks, therapies and tinctures – has always been our most mortal endeavour. But now the giants of invention and investment are building a Fountain of Youth of their own creation. What was once a wild west of experimentation has found its way into Washington’s corridors of power.

We live in a technological age in which artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly prevalent, whereby not only is a current moment recorded with several technological innovations, but above all new forms of relationship and interaction between people and non-people as well as between the real world and the virtual world. In this sense, we are experiencing a new era in which humanoid robots are gaining space in social life and new scientific and social perspectives are emerging.

This, my friends, is a book about AI written by a human for humans. Specifically, this book is written for the reader that wants to apply AI to their life as quickly as possible, without being bothered to take time to figure out how what you're doing is actually working or the consequences.

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