The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
By: Judea Pearl
3.95
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has re…
Want to Read $ 13.99"Scientists should seek shielded mediators whenever they face incurable confounders."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"skepticism has its place. Statisticians are paid to be skeptics; they are the conscience of science."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"Fighting for the acceptance of Bayesian networks in AI was a picnic compared with the fight I had to wage for causal diagrams [in the stormy waters of statistics]."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"[T]he cultural shocks that emanate from new scientific findings are eventually settled by cultural realignments that accommodate those findings—not by concealment. A prerequisite for this realignment is that we sort out the science from the culture before opinions become inflamed."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
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1. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
By: Nick Bostrom
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Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig… read more
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2. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
By: None
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3. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
By: Brian Christian , Tom Griffiths
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Format: None pages, Hardcover
A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday l… read more
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4. Mastering 'Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect
By: Joshua D. Angrist , Jörn-Steffen Pischke
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5. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
By: Max Solomon Bennett
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more
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6. The Erkeley Shadows: A novel
By: Michael Wyndham Thomas
4.34
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
1967. The Summer of Love. Not for Jonathan Parry, perhaps, but certainly a time of big he and his … read more
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"As I reached the door, the constable said, “Good luck in Canada, son."-Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows: A novel
"Will turned over the last words for a long time. Then he thought about the flashing message-light up in the kitchen."-Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows: A novel
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7. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
By: Brian Christian
4.37
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement … read more
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8. AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
By: Ronald M. Razmi
4.28
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Explores the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the healthcare industry AI … read more
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"In short, physicians are getting more and more data, which requires more sophisticated interpretation and which takes more time. AI is the solution, enhancing every stage of patient care from researc…"-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
"Pilots used to fly planes manually, but now they operate a dashboard with the help of computers. This has made flying safer and improved the industry. Healthcare can benefit from the same type of app…"-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
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9. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
By: Mustafa Suleyman
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Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
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10. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields
By: Sean Carroll
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Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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11. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
By: Judea Pearl
3.95
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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"Scientists should seek shielded mediators whenever they face incurable confounders."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"skepticism has its place. Statisticians are paid to be skeptics; they are the conscience of science."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"Fighting for the acceptance of Bayesian networks in AI was a picnic compared with the fight I had to wage for causal diagrams [in the stormy waters of statistics]."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"[T]he cultural shocks that emanate from new scientific findings are eventually settled by cultural realignments that accommodate those findings—not by concealment. A prerequisite for this realignment…"-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
12. The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
By: David Spiegelhalter
4.17
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In this "important and comprehensive" guide to statistical thinking ( New Yorker ), discover how da… read more
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"this book is part of what could be called a new wave in statistics teaching, in which formal probability theory as a basis for statistical inference does not come in till much later"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"[Adolphe Quetelet] developed the idea of 'social physics', since the regularity of societal statistics seemed to reflect an almost mechanistic underlying process. Just as the random molecules of a ga…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
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"When the CERN teams reported a 'five-sigma' result for the Higgs boson, corresponding to a P-value of around 1 in 3.5 million, the BBC reported the conclusion correctly, saying this meant 'about a on…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
13. The Age of AI and Our Human Future
By: Henry Kissinger
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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14. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
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Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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15. AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
By: Kai-Fu Lee
3.86
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
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"Imagine, a $1,000 political assassin! And this is not a far-fetched danger for the future, but a clear and present danger."-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
"autonomous weapons are already a clear and present danger, and will become more intelligent, nimble, lethal, and accessible at an unprecedented speed."-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
"More data leads to better AI (artificial intelligence), more automation leads to greater efficiency, more usage leads to reduced cost, and more free time leads to greater productivity. All of these w…"-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
16. Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
By: Mo Gawdat
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for enginee… read more
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17. Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
By: Aubrey Clayton
4.24
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is … read more
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18. Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
By: Joy Buolamwini
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms an… read more
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19. Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World
By: Nick Bostrom
3.90
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
A greyhound catching the mechanical lure—what would he actually do with it? Has he given this any t… read more
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20. Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: A Practical Guide to A/B Testing
By: Ron Kohavi
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Format: 271 pages, Paperback
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21. Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science)
By: Richard McElreath
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Format: 487 pages, Hardcover
Statistical A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan builds readers’ knowledge of and confide… read more
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