Tom Griffiths

Brian Christian

A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favorites is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same constraints, so computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such issues for decades. And the solutions they've found have much to teach us. In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show how the algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.

The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Algorithms to Live By

A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement to fix them.

Machine Learning and Human Values

The Alignment Problem

A provocative exploration of how computers are reshaping ideas about what it means to be human profiles the annual Turing Test to assess a computer's capacity for thought while analyzing related philosophical, biological and moral issues.

What Talking with Computers Teaches Us about what it Means to be Alive

The Most Human Human

Griffiths

A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives.

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Günlük Kararlarin Bilgisayar Bilimi

Hayatimizdaki Algoritmalar

Hayatımızdaki Algoritmalar

Explores how computers are reshaping ideas about what it means to be human profiling the annual Turing Test to assess a computer's capacity for thought while analyzing related philosophical, biological, and moral issues.

What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us about Being Alive

Algorytmy

Machine Intelligence and Human Values

指导工作与生活的算法

算法之美

The Everlasting Gospel of Christ is the summing up of Brian's journey and legacy. A love story from God's perspective, outside of time and space. Our earthly view of life will produce the illusion of lack, loss, and separation. Knowing our origin as spirit will enable our humanity to embrace every contradiction in life as affirmation. Everything you will read in this book has been tested through trial and error, loss and gain. This is a testimony of grace that has become an inheritance to many. Read it to encounter it. Look for yourself hidden in this book and you will experience grace and power to overcome many obstacles you are presently facing. It is a book for the mystic, the intellectual, the scientist and the philosopher. The Everlasting Gospel of Christ is about the journey of all humanity before time began. What motivated us to come to planet Earth, the reason we chose spiritual amnesia, and the unconditional love demonstrated through our weaknesses and failures.

Identity From An Eternal Perspective

The Everlasting Gospel of Christ

For the first time in history, we are interacting with computers so sophisticated that we think they're human beings. This is a remarkable feat of human ingenuity, but what does it say about our humanity? Are we really no better at being human than the machines we've created? By mimicking our behaviour and conversation, computers have recently come within a single vote of passing the Turing Test, the widely accepted threshold at which a machine can be said to be 'thinking' or 'intelligent'. In this witty, wide-ranging and inspiring investigation, Brian Christian takes the recent and breathtaking advances in artificial intelligence as the opportunity to rethink what it means to be human, and what it means to be intelligent, in the 21st century. Competing head-to-head with the world's leading AI programmes at the annual Turing Test competition, he uses their astonishing achievements as well as their equally fascinating failings to reveal our most human abilities: to learn, to communicate, to intuit and to understand. And in an age when computers may be steering us away from these activities, he shows us how to become the most human humans that we can be. Drawing on science, philosophy, literature and the arts, and touching on aspects of life as diverse as language, work, school, chess, speed-dating, art, video games, psychiatry and the law, The Most Human Human shows that that far from being a threat to our humanity, computers provide a better means than ever before of understanding what it is.

A Defence of Humanity in the Age of the Computer

Steven Isaacs

Master the development of 2D games by learning to use the powerful GameMaker Language and tools provided by the GameMaker: Studio workspace and engine! About This Book Rapidly develop games using the powerful yet easy easy-to to-use GameMaker: Studio engine Comprehensive: This is a comprehensive guide to help you learn and implement GameMaker's features. Go through step-by-step tutorials to design and develop unique games Who This Book Is For If you have at least some basic programming experience of JavaScript or any other C-like languages, then this book will be great for you. No experience beyond that is assumed. If you have no game development experience and are looking for a hobby, are an experienced game developer looking to master some advanced features, or fit anywhere in that spectrum, then you will find GameMaker: Studio and this book to be very useful in helping you create exciting games. What You Will Learn Understand the GameMaker: Studio interface and tools to quickly create the various assets used in your games Translate some of the GameMaker: Studio drag and drop functions to the GameMaker language Create games with random elements for exciting gameplay Use the basic GameMaker file I/O and encryption systems Utilize the GameMaker networking functions to create multiplayer games Give AI routines to your enemies to make challenging gameplay Create particle systems to give your game exciting graphics Understand the various debugging techniques available in GameMaker: Studio In Detail This book is excellent resource for developers with any level of experience of GameMaker. At the start, we'll provide an overview of the basic use of GameMaker: Studio, and show you how to set up a basic game where you handle input and collisions in a top-down perspective game. We continue on to showcase its more advanced features via six different example projects. The first example game demonstrates platforming with file I/O, followed by animation, views, and multiplayer networking. The next game illustrates AI and particle systems, while the final one will get you started with the built-in Box2D physics engine. By the end of this book, you have mastered lots of powerful techniques that can be utilized in various 2D games. Style and approach A This step-by-step guide that follows and with details ons different topics throughout the creation of various examples.

GameMaker Programming By Example

Um mergulho interdisciplinar na origem e no uso dos algoritmos de nossos computadores e celulares, com dicas valiosas que nos ajudam a enfrentar problemas do dia a dia. Quando ouvimos falar em algoritmos, em geral pensamos em programas de computador que estão fazendo algum trabalho em nosso lugar. No entanto, os algoritmos — séries de passos usadas para resolver problemas — têm sido parte de nossas vidas desde a Idade da Pedra. Explicando com clareza problemas matemáticos célebres e descrevendo a origem e o funcionamento de vários algoritmos, o jornalista Brian Christian e o professor de psicologia e ciência cognitiva Tom Griffiths nos mostram que tanto seres humanos como computadores enfrentam limites e dificuldades para resolver problemas. Mais do que apontar os melhores caminhos para otimizar tarefas, este livro ilumina aspectos surpreendentes do funcionamento da mente humana, de nossas emoções e de nosso comportamento. Com o apoio de pesquisas multidisciplinares e de entrevistas com especialistas de diversas áreas, Algoritmos para viver é um mergulho revelador nos processos matemáticos que regem parte cada vez maior de nossa vida cotidiana.

A ciência exata das decisões humanas

Algoritmos para viver

Jak využít počítačové algoritmy při každodenním rozhodování

Algoritmy pro život

Endlich ein Buch, das unser Leben einfacher macht! Jeder von uns trifft unzählige Entscheidungen am Tag. Entscheidungen, die uns viel Zeit kosten – und nicht immer zu den besten Ergebnissen führen. Das ließe sich ändern, wenn wir die Vorteile der Algorithmen stärker für uns nutzen würden. Davon sind der Wissenschaftsautor Brian Christian und der Psychologe Tom Griffiths überzeugt. In ihrem Buch zeigen sie auf, wie uns Algorithmen helfen können, die bestmögliche Lösung für ganz alltägliche Probleme zu finden, von der Suche nach einem Parkplatz bis zur Auswahl des richtigen Restaurants oder Partners. "Algorithmen für den Alltag" überträgt die Erkenntnisse der Informatik in nützliche und alltagstaugliche Strategien und zeigt uns, wie wir mit ihrer Hilfe produktiver, organisierter und wesentlich glücklicher werden.

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