![]() ![]() Here Russell shows how we can avert the worst threats by reshaping the foundations of AI to guarantee that machines pursue our objectives, not theirs. Through brilliant analogies and crisp, lucid prose, he explains how AI actually works, how it has an enormous capacity to improve our lives - but why we must ensure that we never lose control of machines more powerful than we are. 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. ![]() threat to his own species, and lays out how we can change course before it's too late. In this groundbreaking book, Stuart Russell explains why he has come to consider his own discipline an existential. Unfortunately, according to the world's pre-eminent AI expert, it could also be the last. Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control (Paperback)Ĭreating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. ![]()
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Opportunity has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.“Thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and burning desire.But I pick and choose ideas to include at my discretion. The following book summary is a collection of my notes and highlights taken straight from the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() dizzyingly expressive digitized pencil sketches seem to be everywhere at once continually reframing the action to make sure readers savor every gleefully anarchic moment." Starred Review,Kirkus Reviews, May 15, 2011: "The capricious artwork has touches of Helen Oxenbury and Marla Frazee's babies, smudgy, digitized pencil sketches full of movement and joy.This charming, animated episode will elicit giggles and demands of 'read it again! '" Starred Review,School Library Journal, June 2011: "The two youngsters are simply adorable, and their alternating surprised and gleeful expressions, as well as those of their canine accomplice, are priceless. , August 17, 2011: " delightful example of the drama and emotion that a nearly wordless book can convey.the laughter of young readers will doubtlessly round out the narrative." Starred Review,Publishers Weekly, April 18, 2011: "Crum uses only the title word (if you don't count a single "Woof?"), but the various inflections speak volumes about the comic dynamics of sharing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An unlikely dynasty is born, which will span continents, races and generations. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman.Īs their old family ties are washed away they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais or ship-brothers. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2008: a stunningly vibrant novel from Amitav Ghosh.Īt the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. ![]() ![]() ![]() The tale, a simply structured, exquisitely told story of self-sacrifice, generosity, and love, closed with the O. Henry was among the most popular writers of his day, with "Magi" being published at the height of his fame. The indelible short story was first published on Decemin the New York Sunday World Magazine. Henry, and according to legend-a plaque commemorates that booth at Pete's over a century later-he scripted his famous " The Gift of the Magi" there. While patrons drank at the adjacent rosewood bar-some say moved by romance in his own life, others think it could be as simple as witnessing a stolen glance from one stranger to his beau-he sat and penned one of the most enduring love stories to come after the turn of the 20th century. Just over 105 years ago, William Sydney Porter sat in a dim, high-backed booth-the third one from the window-in Pete's Tavern on Irving Place, which cross-sects the Gramercy area of Manhattan. ![]() ![]() ![]() The daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox rabbi, she was born Rachel Shilsky (actually Ruchel Dwara Zylska) in Poland on April 1, 1921. 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The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in "orchestrated chaos" with his eleven siblings in the poor, all-black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn. ![]() James McBride, journalist, musician and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. ![]() ![]() My “Buzzworthy Books” picks are aimed at highlighting early 2019 releases that might still be a few months away, but are worth adding to your TBR now. ![]() What is the “Buzzworthy 2019 Books” Series? Read on for three reasons why THE HUNTING PARTY by Lucy Foley belongs on your TBR-and for more information on my Buzzworthy 2019 Books series! 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