Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI (Daugherty Paul R.)(Pevná vazba)

Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI (Daugherty Paul R.)(Pevná vazba)

AI is radically transforming business. Are you ready?Look around you. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a futuristic notion. It's here right now--in software that senses what we need, supply chains that think in real time, and robots that respond to changes in their environment

Hello World - How to be Human in the Age of the Machine (Fry Hannah)(Paperback / softback)

The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Age of the Robot (Bootle Roger)(Pevná vazba)

Extraordinary innovations in technology promise to transform the world, but how realistic is the claim that AI will change our lives? In this much needed book the acclaimed economist Roger Bootle responds to the fascinating economic questions posed by the age of the robot, steering a path away from

Linguistics for the Age of AI (McShane Marjorie)(Pevná vazba)

A human-inspired, linguistically sophisticated model of language understanding for intelligent agent systems. One of the original goals of artificial intelligence research was to endow intelligent agents with human-level natural language capabilities. Recent AI research, however, has focused on

Life 3.0 - Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Tegmark Max)(Paperback / softback)

Taking us to the heart of the latest thinking about AI, Max Tegmark, the MIT professor whose work has helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial, separates myths from reality, utopias from dystopias, to explore the next phase of our existence.How can we grow our prosperity through

Reimagining Human Rights: Religion and the Common Good (O'Neill William R.)(Paperback)

In Reimagining Human Rights, William O'Neill presents an interpretation of human rights 'from below,' showing how victims of atrocity can embrace the rhetoric of human rights to dismantle old narratives of power and advance new ones. Topics covered include race and mass incarceration, immigration

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (Brynjolfsson Erik)(Pevná vazba)

In recent years, Google's autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM's Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies--with hardware, software, and networks at their core--will in the near future diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors

The Cultural Life of Machine Learning: An Incursion Into Critical AI Studies (Roberge Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

This book brings together the work of historians and sociologists with perspectives from media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and information studies to address the origins, practices, and possible futures of contemporary machine learning. From its foundations in 1950s and 1960s

Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness (Dove Michael R.)(Pevná vazba)

A seminal anthropological work on the paradoxical relationship between human consciousness and the environment 'Innovative, insightful, incandescent.'--Arun Agrawal, author of Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects This book asks age-old questions about the

Evaluation of Human Work (Wilson John R.)(Pevná vazba)

Written by experts with real-world experience in applying ergonomics methodology in a range of contexts, Evaluation of Human Work, Fourth Edition explores ergonomics and human factors from a 'doing it' perspective. More than a cookbook of ergonomics methods, the book encourages students to think

The Meaning of Human Existence (Wilson Edward O.)(Pevná vazba)

In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist Edward O. Wilson grapples with these and other existential questions, examining what makes human beings supremely different from all other species. Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche once

Humanity (Ai Weiwei)(Pevná vazba)

Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our time Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the world's most important artist-activists and a

A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload (Newport Cal)(Pevná vazba)

A New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller From New York Times bestselling author Cal Newport comes a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inbox--and unleashing a new era of productivity. Modern knowledge workers communicate constantly. Their days are defined by a

The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI - Paul Leonardi

The pressure to 'be digital' has never been greater, but you can meet the challenge.The digital revolution is here, changing how work gets done, how industries are structured, and how people from all walks of life work, behave, and relate to each other. To thrive in a world driven by data and

Images of the Ice Age (Bahn Paul G.)(Pevná vazba)

Images of the Ice Age, here in its third edition, is the most complete study available of the world's earliest imagery, presenting a fascinating and up-to-date account of the art of our Ice Age ancestors. Authoritative and wide-ranging, it covers not only the magnificent cave art of famous sites

Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life (Austin Paula C.)(Pevná vazba)

The fullest account to date of African American young people in a segregated city Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC offers a complex narrative of the everyday lives of black young people in a racially, spatially, economically, and politically restricted Washington, DC, during the 1930s. In contrast to

Ceramic, Art and Civilisation (Greenhalgh Paul)(Pevná vazba)

In his major new history, Paul Greenhalgh tells the story of ceramics as a story of human civilisation, from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. As a core craft technology, pottery has underpinned domesticity, business, religion, recreation, architecture, and art for millenia. Indeed, the

Reimagining Businesses with AI (Al Huraimel Khaled)(Pevná vazba)

Most organizations who see their survival and success in the future are making artificial intelligence (AI) a part of their core agenda, but their leaders also struggle with developing a roadmap for how to reimagine their world with AI. This book is intended to help both business and technology

The Human Moment: The Positive Power of Compassion in the Workplace (Bradley Amy)(Paperback)

Organizations are becoming increasingly dehumanized. The move toward an AI-driven world of work means intense competition for a finite number of 'human' resources, where the pressure to perform can incite an 'I'm fine' response when a colleague asks, 'How are you?'. Opportunities to connect

The Invention Hunters Discover How Machines Work (Briggs Korwin)(Pevná vazba)

Learn about machines the fun way The Magic School Bus meets The Way Things Work in this kid-friendly guide to understanding the basics of simple machines, perfect for budding engineers. The Invention Hunters travel the globe in their flying museum collecting the world's greatest inventions Today

Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine (Norman Don)(Paperback)

In Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our minds, rather than minds that must conform to the machine.Humans have always worked with objects to extend our

French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626 - 1786 (Winfield Rif)(Pevná vazba)

The origins of a permanent French sailing navy can be traced to the work of Cardinal Richelieu in the 1620s, but a virtually new Marine Royale had to be re-created by Colbert from 1661. Thereafter, Louis XIV's navy grew rapidly to become the largest and most powerful in the world, at the same time

The Railway Experience (Atterbury Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Britain is a country in love with its railway past. Nowhere else do the workhorses of the age of steam exert such a pull; in no other country is the nostalgia for the days when the railways extended to every corner of the kingdom so strong. However, the history of station buildings and signal

The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies: Scholarly Editing and Book History (Eggert Paul)(Pevná vazba)

By the late 1980s the concept of the work had slipped out of sight, consigned to its last refuge in the library catalogue as concepts of discourse and text took its place. Scholarly editors, who depended on it, found no grounding in literary theory for their practice. But fundamental ideas do not