A SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Essential reading about love, life and care' Kate Mosse 'Dementia is all around us, in our families and in our genes; perhaps in our own futures. If it's not you or me, it's someone we love.' After her own father's death from dementia, the writer and campaigner Nicci Gerrard set out to explore the illness that ...(展开全部)

How should you live? Should you devote yourself to perfecting a single talent or try to live a balanced life? Should you lighten up and have more fun, or buckle down and try to achieve greatness? Should you try to be a better friend? Should you be self-critical or self-accepting? And how should you decide among the possibilities open to you? Should you consult experts, li...(展开全部)

A new theory of mind that includes nonhuman and artificial intelligences. The much-lauded superiority of human intelligence has not prevented us from driving the planet into ecological disaster. For N. Katherine Hayles, the climate crisis demands that we rethink basic assumptions about human and nonhuman intelligences. In Bacteria to AI, Hayles develops a new theory of mind—wh...(展开全部)

A wide-ranging intellectual history that reveals how important games have been to human progress, and what’s at stake when we forget what games we’re really playing. We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the minds of others, and to make predictions about the future. Games are an essential aspect of humanity and a powerful tool for modeling reality....(展开全部)

A new theory of mind that includes nonhuman and artificial intelligences. The much-lauded superiority of human intelligence has not prevented us from driving the planet into ecological disaster. For N. Katherine Hayles, the climate crisis demands that we rethink basic assumptions about human and nonhuman intelligences. In Bacteria to AI, Hayles develops a new theory of mind—wh...(展开全部)

“Deftly weaving together science and personal observation, Lee proves an engaging, authoritative guide… of the human condition.” —Kate Wong, editor at Scientific American What can fossilized teeth tell us about our ancient ancestors’ life expectancy? Did farming play a problematic role in the history of human evolution? And what do we have in common with Neanderthals? In this c...(展开全部)

一场机器人革命正在进行。目前，工厂里有创纪录的310万台机器人在工作，从组装电脑到包装货物，再到监测空气质量和性能，无所不包。更多的智能机器以无数其他方式影响着我们的生活——提高外科医生的精准度、清洁我们的房屋、拓展我们与遥远世界的联系——而且，我们正处于更多激动人心的机遇的风口浪尖。 在《心脏与芯片》一书中，机器人学家丹妮拉·鲁斯和科普作家格雷戈里·莫内概述了机器人技术、人工智能和机器学习等相互关联的领域，并重新定义了我们对智能机器的思考方式，同时权衡了它们在社会中扮演的角色所带来的道德和伦理后果。机器人不会抢走我们的工作：它们会让我们更有能力、更高效、更精准。 罗斯和莫内既乐观又务实，他们设想了一个这样的世界：这些技术能够增强和提升我们作为个体和物种的技能和才能——一个机器人的普及让我们所有人都能变得更像人类的世界。 There is a rob...(展开全部)

Daniela Rus, a leading roboticist and computer scientist, explores how we can use a new generation of smart machines to help humankind. There is a robotics revolution underway. A record 3.1 million robots are working in factories right now, doing everything from assembling computers to packing goods and monitoring air quality and performance. A far greater number of smart machi...(展开全部)

[美]里德·霍夫曼 · 知名互联网企业家，领英联合创始人，微软董事会成员。知名风险投资人，OpenAI早期投资人，也曾投资过Facebook、爱彼迎等知名公司。 · Al领域的科技思想家，对AI的颠覆性潜力有清晰的预见，倡导以更加人性化和可持续的方式应用AI技术。 [美]格雷格·贝亚托 · 科技及文化类文章创作者，知名媒体撰稿人。

"A rich history of what makes us tick, so to speak, paired with fascinating modern discoveries about how circadian rhythms influence our daily lives" —The Wall Street Journal How the groundbreaking science of circadian rhythms can help you sleep better, feel happier, and improve your overall health Your body contains a symphony of tiny timepieces, synchronized to the sun and su...(展开全部)