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  • The Flag in the Wind

    by John MacCormick ...
    Born in Glasgow in 1904, Dr John MacCormick studied law at Glasgow University and was one of the chief founding members of the National Party of Scotland in 1928 and, with the merger of the NPS and the Scottish Party, of the Scottish National Party in 1934. In 1942, he left the SNP and was instrumental in the forming the Scottish Convention which went on to produce the Scottish Covenant in 1949, ... Read more

    $11.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thinking AI

    How Artificial Intelligence Emulates Human Understanding

    by John MacCormick ...
    Can a computer program think like a human?“Can machines think?” Ever since Alan Turing posed this question in an influential 1950 paper, it has been central to research in artificial intelligence. More than seventy-five years after Turing’s paper, we grapple with it every time we wonder if Watson was actually smarter than Jeopardy! champions, or if ChatGPT really knows what it’s talking about. In ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future

    The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers

    by John MacCormick ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    Nine revolutionary algorithms that power our computers and smartphonesEvery day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack. Uploading a photo to Facebook transmits millions of pieces of information over numerous error-prone network links, yet somehow a perfect copy of the photo arrives intact. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future

    The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers

    by John MacCormick ...
    Narrated by Quentin Cooper ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library

    Unabridged

    6 hours 57 min

    This audiobook narrated by Quentin Cooper explains the tricks behind nine revolutionary algorithms that power our computers and smartphonesEvery day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack. Uploading a photo to Facebook transmits millions of pieces of information over numerous error-prone ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • How to Create a Mind

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bold futurist and renowned author of The Singularity Is Near explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain.“This book is a Rosetta Stone for the mystery of human thought.”—Martine Rothblatt, chairman and CEO, United Therapeutics, and creator of Sirius XM Satellite Radio“Kurzweil’s vision of our super-enhanced future is completely sane and ... Read more

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  • The Deep Learning Revolution

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  • Artificial Intelligence

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  • ChatGPT and the Future of AI

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