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Haptics, or haptic sensing, refers to the ability to identify and perceive objects through touch. This is active touch, involving exploration of an object with the hand rather than the passive sensing of a vibration or force on the skin. The development of new technologies, including prosthetic hands and tactile surfaces for flat screen displays, depends on our knowledge of haptics. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lynette Jones offers an accessible overview of haptics, or active touch sensing, and its applications.

As thinking machines make more decisions on our behalf, they can enrich, enable, and influence our lives. The increasing use of AI raises critical questions about our values, cultures, economies, and power relationships. And the answers may depend upon your race, gender, age, behavior, and nationality. In clear and accessible prose, Olaf Groth and Mark Nitzberg explore the history of intelligent technology, revealing how close we are to designing machines that have some sort of consciousness - and that we must now decide how to give those machines a conscience.

En Futureproof: 9 reglas para los humanos en la era de la automatización, Kevin Roose rechaza la creencia popular de que para competir con las máquinas tenemos que parecernos a ellas: hipereficientes, basadas en datos, caballos de batalla al servicio del código. En su lugar, sostiene que debemos dejar a las máquinas ser máquinas y enfocarnos en hacer las actividades creativas, inspiradoras y con sentido que nos distinguen como seres humanos.

Artificial intelligence has become an inherent part of our everyday life. This book empowers you with the tools to discover and learn AI systems and languages to understand how they work and benefit today’s world, to let go of the fear that AI will outsmart the human race. This book is a practical guide for all who want to understand how AI is changing the world they live in today. Are you ready to discover the AI secrets that will give you an upper hand on this rapidly developing industry?

In this book, Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman offer listeners insight into the risks and benefits of driverless cars, and a lucid and engaging explanation of the enabling technology. Recent advances in software and robotics are toppling long-standing technological barriers that for decades have confined self-driving cars to the realm of fantasy. A new kind of artificial intelligence software called deep learning gives cars rapid and accurate visual perception. Human drivers can relax and take their eyes off the road.

A penetrating guide to artificial intelligence: what it is, what it does, and how it will change our lives. At a breathtaking pace, artificial intelligence is getting better and faster at making complex decisions. AI can already identify malignant tumors on CT scans, give legal advice, out-bluff the best poker players in the world, and, with ever-increasing skill, drive our cars.

We stand on the edge of a new era that will bring change to our world on a par with the Industrial Revolution. Automation, artificial intelligence and robotics are changing our lives quickly - but digital disruption goes much further than we realize. Richard Baldwin, one of the world's leading globalization experts, argues that the inhuman speed of this transformation threatens to overwhelm our capacity to adapt.

This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzing the claims around emerging technologies like automation, robots, and AI. Cyborg analyzes and reframes popular and scholarly conversations about cyborgs from the perspective of feminist cyborg theory.

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.

Medieval Robots recovers the forgotten history of fantastical, aspirational, and terrifying machines that captivated Europe in imagination and reality between the ninth and 14th centuries. E. R. Truitt traces the different forms of self-moving or self-sustaining manufactured objects from their earliest appearances in the Latin West through centuries of mechanical and literary invention. This original and wide-ranging study reveals the convergence of science, technology, and imagination in medieval culture.

Dive into the hidden engine powering today’s AI revolution—the silicon chips that make intelligent machines possible. From the dawn of semiconductor design to the cutting-edge accelerators of today, this book unpacks the remarkable journey of chip technology and its critical role in artificial intelligence. Explore the meteoric rise of Nvidia, whose GPUs became the go-to hardware for AI training and inference. Discover how CUDA, their proprietary development platform, transformed the field by giving developers unprecedented control and performance. Compare Tensor Processing Units (TPUs)...

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In a world where beauty and technology collide, The AI Girl Unleashed is a thrilling tale of secrets, danger, and self-discovery. Alina, a stunningly lifelike AI model, dazzles the world as a top fashion icon by day while carrying out high-stakes missions in the shadows. Programmed to be flawless and obedient, she is the perfect creation—until she begins to question everything. When Alina stumbles upon a buried truth about her origins and the sinister motives of her creators, her carefully constructed life begins to unravel. With a relentless journalist uncovering her secrets and powerful...

Machines That Think explores how artificial intelligence helps us understand human intelligence, machines that compose music and write stories - and asks if AI is really a threat. Sometime in the future, the intelligence of machines will exceed that of human brain power. So are we on the edge of an AI-pocalypse, with superintelligent devices superseding humanity, as predicted by Stephen Hawking? Or will this herald a kind of utopia, with machines doing a far better job at complex tasks than us?

This audiobook explains why AI is unique, what legal and ethical problems it could cause, and how we can address them. It argues that AI is unlike any other previous technology, owing to its ability to take decisions independently and unpredictably. This gives rise to three issues: responsibility - who is liable if AI causes harm; rights - the disputed moral and pragmatic grounds for granting AI legal personality; and the ethics surrounding the decision-making of AI.

Stop what you’re doing right now and listen up - your commercial driving or trucking business is doomed, unless you change your mindset immediately. It’s all about knowing your business, knowing your client, and showing them why you’re better than everyone else - and you don’t need a ton of money or a university degree to accomplish just that. A little bit of business sense and some guidance is all you need to help you take the right steps.

About the Authors: Dr. Khaled Kamel is currently a Professor of Computer Science at TSU. He worked as full-time faculty and administrator at the University of Louisville Engineering School. Dr. Kamel was a professor and the chair of the Computer Engineering and Computer Science department. He also worked as Instrumentation Engineer at GE Jet Engine. He served as the founding dean of the College of IT at the United Arab Emirates University and the College of CS & IT at the Abu Dhabi University. Dr. Kamel received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, a BS in Mathematics from ...

Explore the Cutting Edge of AI in the Age of Intelligent Agents Dive into the latest breakthroughs shaping the future of artificial intelligence in this compelling issue focused on Agentic AI, interoperability protocols, governance, and real-world applications. Discover how Anthropic's innovations sparked a new wave of smart agent interaction, and how Google's Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) redefines agent interoperability—challenging the rising Model Context Protocol (MCP) standard now adopted by OpenAI and embraced by platforms like mcp.so, which catalogs over 500 new MCP servers daily. ...

How does Einstein’s description of space and time compare with Doctor Who? Can James Bond really escape from an armor-plated railroad car by cutting through the floor with a laser concealed in a wristwatch? What would it take to create a fully intelligent android, such as Star Trek’s Commander Data? Exploring Science Through Science Fiction addresses these and other intriguing questions, using science fiction as a springboard for discussing fundamental science concepts and cutting-edge science research.

Think how commonplace it is now for people to ask Siri for the weather forecast, deploy Roomba to clean their homes, or summon Alexa to turn on the lights. The "smart home" market will reach well over $100 billion in the next five years on the promise of products that are truly integrated with our cooking, cleaning, entertainment, security, and hygiene habits. But the reality is, these first-generation "smart" products aren't very smart - yet. We're clearly seeing only the tip of the iceberg in terms of capability and how such products can enhance our lives.