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The Singularity Is Nearer
- When We Merge with AI
- By: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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This is what our future looks like: in the next decade, AI will be able to convince us that it’s human. During the 2030s, it will become ‘superintelligent’, vastly outstripping our capabilities by almost every measure. By 2045, it will be possible to connect our brains with these AIs using invisibly small nanotechnologies. Our minds and theirs will merge, expanding our consciousness more profoundly than we can fully comprehend, unlocking possibilities we can barely imagine. This is the singularity.
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Simplistic nonsense
- By James Burkill on 12-09-24
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The Singularity Is Nearer
- When We Merge with AI
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 27-06-24
- Language: English
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AI Snake Oil
- What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
- By: Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
- Narrated by: Landon Woodson
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You’re not alone. AI is everywhere—and few things are surrounded by so much hype, misinformation, and misunderstanding. In AI Snake Oil, computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor cut through the confusion to give you an essential understanding of how AI works, why it often doesn’t, where it might be useful or harmful, and when you should suspect that companies are using AI hype to sell AI snake oil—products that don’t work, and probably never will.
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AI Snake Oil
- What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
- Narrated by: Landon Woodson
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 24-09-24
- Language: English
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- How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
- By: Kate Conger, Ryan Mac
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
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Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk’s unprecedented hostile takeover of Twitter and the forty-four-billion-dollar deal’s seismic political, social, and financial fallout. This is the defining story of our time told with uncommon style and peerless rigor. In a world of viral ideas and emotion, who gets to control the narrative, who gets to be heard, and what does power really cost?
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- How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 19-09-24
- Language: English
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Crypto Confidential
- Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance
- By: Nathaniel Eliason
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Eliason
- Length: 8 hrs
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Nat Eliason had six months to make as much money as possible before his first child was born. So, he turned to where countless others did in 2021: crypto. Within a year, he'd made millions writing code holding hundreds of millions of dollars of other people's money. He'd been hacked. He'd sold a picture of a monkey for two hundred grand. He'd become an influencer, speaking at conferences, and writing a weekly newsletter to tens of thousands of fans. Best of all, Nat had amassed a small fortune. But how much of this money was even real?
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Crypto Confidential
- Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Eliason
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 12-09-24
- Language: English
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Supremacy
- AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World
- By: Parmy Olson
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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When ChatGPT was released, the world changed overnight. Even as we all played with the new toy, a very real danger was quickly coming to light: that untested automations would undermine our way of life insidiously, sucking value out of our economy, replacing high-level creative jobs and enabling a new, terrifying era of disinformation.
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Supremacy
- AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 12-09-24
- Language: English
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Invisible Women
- Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
- By: Caroline Criado-Perez
- Narrated by: Caroline Criado Perez
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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In her new audiobook, Invisible Women, award-winning campaigner and writer Caroline Criado Perez shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. She exposes the gender data gap - a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women’s lives.
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Important book but dreadful audio
- By Esther on 21-04-19
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Invisible Women
- Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
- Narrated by: Caroline Criado Perez
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 07-03-19
- Language: English
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Co-Intelligence
- Living and Working with AI
- By: Ethan Mollick
- Narrated by: Ethan Mollick
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
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Cutting through the noise of AI evangelists and AI doom-mongers, Wharton professor Ethan Mollick has become one of the most prominent and provocative explainers of AI, focusing on the practical aspects of how these new tools for thought can transform our world. In Co-Intelligence, he urges us to engage with AI as co-worker, co-teacher and coach.
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Good content. A little hard to understand
- By Faisal Shariff on 07-05-24
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Co-Intelligence
- Living and Working with AI
- Narrated by: Ethan Mollick
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 11-04-24
- Language: English
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Digital Dharma
- How AI Can Elevate Spiritual Intelligence and Personal Wellbeing
- By: Dr Deepak Chopra
- Narrated by: Dr Deepak Chopra
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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In a world captivated yet bewildered by artificial intelligence, spiritual icon Deepak Chopra explores AI's untapped potential to unlock the mystery of consciousness, positioning AI not as a threat, but as a powerful catalyst for personal and spiritual growth. Digital Dharma shows how the most popular, freely available chatbots can serve as guides through every level of human potential – survival and safety, emotional connection, self-worth, abundance, creativity, wisdom and the infinite possibilities of cosmic consciousness.
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Digital Dharma
- How AI Can Elevate Spiritual Intelligence and Personal Wellbeing
- Narrated by: Dr Deepak Chopra
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 19-09-24
- Language: English
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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From the Sunday Times top ten best-selling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. "It's about the terror, isn't it?" "The terror of what?" I said. "The terror of being found out." For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world, meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - people who, say, made jokes on social media that came out badly or made mistakes at work.
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Not too bad for a Jon Ronson book
- By M. S. on 20-08-19
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 12-03-15
- Language: English
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Technofeudalism
- What Killed Capitalism
- By: Yanis Varoufakis
- Narrated by: Yanis Varoufakis
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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No one noticed when capitalism died. Perhaps we were too distracted by the implosion of global finance, or the rise of populism, or the demise of the planet - or all of those cute cats on Instagram. But gradually, quietly, a yet more exploitative new system has taken hold: techno-feudalism. Crafted in the form of a letter to his late father, who first taught him about the power of new technologies to shape human history, Yanis Varoufakis explains how Big Tech has effected an invisible but fundamental transformation in all our lives.
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Amazing thought and insight
- By Stephanie Clay on 17-10-23
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Technofeudalism
- What Killed Capitalism
- Narrated by: Yanis Varoufakis
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 28-09-23
- Language: English
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Architects of Intelligence
- The Truth About AI from the People Building It
- By: Martin Ford
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
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How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? Architects of Intelligence contains a series of in-depth, one-to-one interviews where New York Times best-selling author Martin Ford uncovers the truth behind these questions from some of the brightest minds in the artificial intelligence community.
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Provocative insights into the minds that have shaped modern AI
- By Black2Sugars on 18-06-24
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Architects of Intelligence
- The Truth About AI from the People Building It
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 19-11-19
- Language: English
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Human Compatible
- AI and the Problem of Control
- By: Stuart Russell
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, according to the world's pre-eminent AI expert, it could also be the last. In this groundbreaking book on the biggest question facing humanity, Stuart Russell explains why he has come to consider his own discipline an existential threat to his own species, and lays out how we can change course before it's too late. There is no one better placed to assess the promise and perils of the dominant technology of the future than Russell, who has spent decades at the forefront of AI research.
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Disaster.
- By Armin Powalka on 14-01-21
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Human Compatible
- AI and the Problem of Control
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 08-10-19
- Language: English
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Backfired: The Vaping Wars
- By: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
- Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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When two Stanford graduate students set out to create a new kind of cigarette that wouldn’t kill them, they didn’t foresee all the obstacles that lay ahead — or the powerful forces their invention would unleash. Nearly 10 years after the launch of the JUUL, Backfired: The Vaping Wars asks: Could e-cigarettes have been the solution to one of the world’s most pressing public health problems—or was this technology doomed to introduce a whole new generation to nicotine, and end up perpetuating an intractable addiction?
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An important story told very well
- By Anonymous User on 24-06-24
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Backfired: The Vaping Wars
- Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
- Series: Backfired
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 20-06-24
- Language: English
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Present Shock
- When Everything Happens Now
- By: Douglas Rushkoff
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 11 hrs
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As both individuals and communities, we have a choice. We can struggle through the onslaught of information and play an eternal game of catch-up. Or we can choose to live in the present: favor eye contact over texting; quality over speed; and human quirks over digital perfection. Rushkoff offers hope for anyone seeking to transcend the false now.
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Oh dear, this was unfinishable
- By J. Armstrong on 24-09-14
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Present Shock
- When Everything Happens Now
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 10-09-13
- Language: English
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Design Justice
- Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
- By: Sasha Costanza-Chock
- Narrated by: Megan Tusing
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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This book explores the theory and practice of design justice, demonstrates how universalist design principles and practices erase certain groups of people - specifically, those who are intersectionally disadvantaged or multiply burdened under the matrix of domination (white supremacist heteropatriarchy, ableism, capitalism, and settler colonialism) - and invites listeners to "build a better world, a world where many worlds fit; linked worlds of collective liberation and ecological sustainability".
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Design Justice
- Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
- Narrated by: Megan Tusing
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 24-08-21
- Language: English
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Digital Minimalism
- Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- By: Cal Newport
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 7 hrs
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In this timely and enlightening audiobook, Cal Newport introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives. Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations without furtive glances at their phones. They can have fun with friends and family and eat out at restaurants without the obsessive urge to document the experience...Now, Newport gives us a name for this quiet movement and makes a case for its urgency in our tech-saturated world.
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Thought Provoking; Shame About The Narrator
- By Philippa Turner on 20-04-19
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Digital Minimalism
- Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 05-02-19
- Language: English
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Films from the Future
- The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies
- By: Andrew Maynard
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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Former physicist Andrew Maynard threads together his love of science-fiction movies with his expertise on emerging technologies to engage, entertain, and make you think about the relationship between technology and society. Through the imagination and creativity of science-fiction movies, Maynard introduces listeners to the profound capabilities presented by new and emerging technologies, and the complex personal and societal challenges they present.
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Fantastically brilliant!
- By Anonymous User on 15-02-19
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Films from the Future
- The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 15-11-18
- Language: English
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Robot Souls
- Programming in Humanity
- By: Eve Poole
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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Two of the biggest design problems in Artificial Intelligence are how to build robots that behave in line with human values and how to stop them ever going rogue. One under-explored solution to these alignment and control problems might be to examine how these are already addressed in the design of humans. Robot Souls looks at developments in AI and reviews the emergence of ideas of consciousness and the soul. It places our 'junk code' in this context and argues that it is time to foreground that code, and to use it to look again at how we are programming AI.
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Robot Souls
- Programming in Humanity
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 24-09-24
- Language: English
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The Metaverse
- And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
- By: Matthew Ball
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
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The term metaverse is suddenly everywhere, from debates over Fortnite to the pages of the New York Times to the speeches of Mark Zuckerberg, who proclaimed in June 2021 that “the overarching goal” of Facebook is to “bring the metaverse to life”. But what, exactly, is the metaverse? As pioneering theorist and venture capitalist Matthew Ball explains, it is the successor to the mobile internet that has defined the last two decades.
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I'd give it 6 Stars if I could
- By ronnie on 15-11-22
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The Metaverse
- And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 19-07-22
- Language: English
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Scary Smart
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
- By: Mo Gawdat
- Narrated by: Mo Gawdat
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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Artificial intelligence is smarter than humans. It can process information at lightning speed and remain focused on specific tasks without distraction. AI can see into the future, predicting outcomes and even use sensors to see around physical and virtual corners. So why does Intelligence frequently get it so wrong? The answer is us. Humans design the algorithms that define the way that AI works and the processed information reflects an imperfect world.
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Don’t be fooled by his gospel of AI.
- By I.H. Schots on 30-10-21
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Scary Smart
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
- Narrated by: Mo Gawdat
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 30-09-21
- Language: English
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