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Boost productivity, save time, and make smarter decisions—no tech expertise required! Curious about artificial intelligence (AI) but unsure where to start? Practical AI for Beginners makes AI accessible, showing you how to integrate it seamlessly into your daily life.

We've all found ourselves checking email at the dinner table, holding our breath while waiting for Outlook to load, or sitting hunched in front of a screen for an hour longer than we intended. Mobile devices and the web have invaded our lives, and this is a big idea book that addresses one of the biggest questions of our age: Can we stay connected without diminishing our intelligence, attention spans, and ability to really live? Can we have it all?

In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use social media as a mirror to decipher our place in society, but, as Chris Bail explains, it functions more like a prism that distorts our identities, empowers status-seeking extremists, and renders moderates all but invisible.

In 1714, England's Parliament offered a huge reward to anyone whose method of measuring longitude could be proven successful. The scientific establishment--from Galileo to Sir Isaac Newton--had mapped the heavens in its certainty of a celestial answer. In stark contrast, one man, John Harrison, dared to imagine a mechanical solution--a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had been able to do on land. And the race was on....

Have you ever chatted with a computer that seemed to really get you? Asked it a question and, seconds later, it gave you an answer that was actually useful—or even surprisingly insightful? If you’ve had that experience recently, there’s a good chance you were talking to ChatGPT. It might feel a bit like science fiction—an artificial intelligence that can hold a conversation, write emails, draft stories, explain complex topics, and even tell you a joke or two. But ChatGPT isn’t a futuristic fantasy anymore.

Like a thief in the night, artificial intelligence has inserted itself into our lives. It makes important decisions for us every day. Often, we barely notice. As Joe Allen writes in this groundbreaking book, “Transhumanism is the great merger of humankind with the Machine. At this stage in history, it consists of billions using smartphones. Going forward, we’ll be hardwiring our brains to artificial intelligence systems.” With an academic background in both science and theology, Allen confronts the paradox of what he calls “good people constructing a digital abomination.”

Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. If machine brains surpassed human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become extremely powerful - possibly beyond our control.

The ability to hack AI and the technology industry's lack of effort to secure it is thought by experts to be the biggest unaddressed technology issue of our time. Hacking Artificial Intelligence sheds light on these hacking risks, explaining them to those who can make a difference. This book is the first-ever layman's guide to the new world of hacking AI and introduces the field to thousands of people who should be aware of these risks. From a security perspective, AI is today where the internet was thirty years ago. It is wide open and can be exploited.

Have you ever contemplated the potential applications of artificial intelligence, more precisely ChatGPT, within contemporary professional sectors? Are you enthusiastic about utilizing AI to increase your efficiency, improve your company, or even generate revenue online? "CHATGPT BIBLE 6 Books in 1" is an all-encompassing manual that covers every aspect of utilizing ChatGPT in a professional setting. This book imparts the understanding necessary to harness the full potential of ChatGPT, thereby granting an unparalleled competitive advantage within your industry.

Veteran video-game designer Dustin Hansen takes YA listeners on a fun and fascinating trip through the brief but intensely innovative history of video games. Find out about the fast and furious growth and evolution of video games (including how they are quickly taking over the world!) by looking at some of the most popular, innovative, and influential games ever, from Pong, the very first arcade game ever, to modern hits like Uncharted.

This cutting-edge guide not only shows how AI is transforming our careers, lives, businesses, and more, but also provides easy, actionable steps to make AI work for us.

Are you ready to pass the CompTIA A+ exams (220-1101 & 220-1102) with confidence and land your dream IT job? This power-packed study guide is your one-stop resource, designed to make learning easy, engaging, and effective—even if you're starting from scratch!

The use of cognitive analytics/artificial intelligence (AI) systems is set to accelerate. Advanced Analytics and AI prepares business users for the era of cognitive analytics/artificial intelligence. Building on established texts and commentary, it specifically prepares you in terms of expectation, impact on personal roles, and responsibilities. It focuses on the specific impact on key industries (retail, financial services, utilities and media) and also on key professions (such as accounting, operational management, supply chain and risk management).

If you're looking to start, scale, or grow a digital business where clients act like your boss, and you see more of your office chair than your family... There are plenty of other agency models that will help you do that. If you want a business where clients are your partners and you're only needed for a few hours a day because AI does all the delivery for you...The Instant AI Agency is worth your attention. Whilst most people help businesses make more sales by adding more complexity, more staff members and more expensive overheads - We do the opposite.

Humans have always been good at inventing tools that change the way we live and work—though not always good at adapting to those changes. Consider how the internet has given us instant access to gigabytes of data and yet has made us more distracted. Or how social media has enabled us to be more connected than ever, and yet it can also alienate or isolate us. Will the power of AI create a new era of robotic, impersonal efficiency, or will it catalyze a renaissance, redefining leadership and the world of work?

In this groundbreaking and practical guide, teachers will discover how to harness and manage AI as a powerful teaching tool. Jose Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson present emerging and powerful research on the seismic changes AI is already creating in schools and the workplace, providing invaluable insights into what AI can accomplish in the classroom and beyond.

Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit, it is innovation itself that explains them and that will itself shape the 21st century for good and ill. Yet innovation remains a mysterious process, poorly understood by policy makers and businessmen, hard to summon into existence to order, yet inevitable and inexorable when it does happen.

The Guide to Going Viral is like a director’s manual for social media. It provides a step-by-step approach to crafting content with the impact of a classic film. Brendan Kane leverages his expertise in social media, entrepreneurship, and the film industry to blend the art of filmmaking with strategies for viral content creation.

Aumenta tu productividad, ahorra tiempo y toma decisiones más inteligentes en el día a día, ¡incluso si nunca antes has trabajado con IA! ¿Sientes curiosidad por la inteligencia artificial (IA), pero no sabes por dónde empezar? ¿Te abruma la jerga compleja y te preocupa no tener los conocimientos técnicos necesarios para entender la IA? ¿Te preguntas si la IA podría simplificar tus rutinas diarias?

As AI continues to blur the line between reality and fabrication, Richard A. Mann’s Truth and AI: Seeing is No Longer Believing offers a clear and practical guide to understanding how artificial intelligence is redefining trust in the digital age. With technologies like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) powering the creation of hyper-realistic deepfakes, the book breaks down how these tools work and how they challenge our ability to distinguish real from fake. Mann traces the evolution of digital manipulation, starting with basic photo edits and leading to today’s AI-driven media.