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Superintelligence and the Future of Humanity

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The Nobel Prize–winning “godfather of AI” explains why the machines he helped create may soon surpass us—and what humanity can still do to shape the future.Geoffrey Hinton is one of the architects of modern artificial intelligence. For more than half a century, he has sought to understand how the human brain learns—and to build machines that could do the same. His pioneering work on neural ... Read more

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The first biography—“a stunning achievement” (Kai Bird, American Prometheus)—of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger PenroseWhen he was six years old, Roger Penrose discovered a sundial in a clearing near his house. Through that machine made of light, shadow, and time, Roger glimpsed a “world behind the world” of transcendently beautiful geometry. It spurred him on ... Read more

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The nuclear age came into existence with the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. Since then, the era of the atom has become the age of two bombs: atomic and hydrogen.In The Nuclear Age, Serhii Plokhy, one of our preeminent Cold War historians, explores why governments have acquired and stockpiled nuclear weapons and reveals the global failure to reach ... Read more

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The nuclear age came into existence with the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. Since then, the era of the atom has become the age of two bombs: atomic and hydrogen.In The Nuclear Age, Serhii Plokhy, one of our preeminent Cold War historians, explores why governments have acquired and stockpiled nuclear weapons and reveals the global failure to reach
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