"From the New York Times-bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From, a look at he world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained. This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes along-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change. Steven Johnson argues that, throughout history, the cutting edge of innovation...

Get the Summary of Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan's AI 2041 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand-new forms of communication and entertainment....

Having lived and worked in and around agriculture in Fife all his life, Andrew Arbuckle has a deep affection for his farming heritage. Keen to record this for both those who remember the old ways of farming as well as future generations, Andrew has gathered information from a variety of sources to present a commentary on Scottish farming life from 1900 to the present day. Andrew's avenues of research included local newspaper archives, press cuttings,...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. #1 In 2007, Kleiner Perkins was approached by engineers who had named their startup after Nikola Tesla, the legendary inventor. They had partnered with a wildly successful PayPal entrepreneur who was now chairman of the board. They wanted to pitch their idea. #2 The world must replace all gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles with a fleet of zero-emissions cars, trucks, and buses...

Start a fascinating trip through the pages of "Beyond the Turing Test: Charting the Course of Artificial Intelligence" This stimulating book tells the story of artificial intelligence (AI), from its early 2000s revival to the conversational AI age, giving readers a comprehensive look at the technical journey that has changed the way we live.Each chapter reveals a different aspect of the development of AI, from the comeback of machine learning to the...

In the current business environment, many companies consciously or subconsciously practice a culture of inherent technical isolation (ITI). ITI exists when businesses and IT leaders in particular consistently provide preferential treatment to team members in their organizations on the basis of technical versus nontechnical competency. This book is written to not only draw attention to the ITI culture but to also promote an inclusive management practice...

The robot is upon us: The future is so near and yet so far. In this book we take a brief glimpse into the Munich of the future. Above all, technical development alone will ensure that city life will be different from today – Although we cannot yet fly to the supermarket the fundamental image of a city is radically changing. To give a brief insight into the year 2050, however, we must first travel back in time and understand developments that have...

This early work on electrical vocabulary is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains an extensive list of definitions for the terms and phrases used in electrical engineering and the electrical trades. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone with an interest in the field. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing...

This early collection on tractors contains articles that would be both expensive and hard to find in their first editions. It contains a wealth of information on the operation, maintenance and mechanics of tractors. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in farm machinery. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic...

This book is designed for readers who wish to gain a thorough grasp of how LLMs operate, from their foundational architecture to advanced training techniques and real-world applications.The book begins by exploring the fundamental concepts behind LLMs, including their architectural components, such as transformers and attention mechanisms. It delves into the intricacies of self-attention, positional encoding, and multi-head attention, highlighting...