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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What if Jesus had been born in the twentieth century What if he had been Brazilian This is a work of fiction spanning thirty-three years, between 1940 and 1974, in which imagined characters move among real historical figures in a story that holds the reader to the last page. Thirty-Three is not a book about religion. The subject never comes up. It is about human relationships across the turbulent stretch of Brazilian history that runs from the Second World War to the military dictatorship. The three main characters: Emmanuel, the humble son of Joseph and Mary, from Pernambuco; Saul de Tarso, heir to a family with a long military tradition; and the mysterious Israel, a young communist who learns early to challenge the men he calls 'the owners of power,' travel different roads until their lives cross. Who, in the end, was right The military, the communists, or none of them Read it and draw your own conclusions.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Imagine you could become God. What would you do How would you reach that condition And what if the only way for you to exist were to create something living, and to be the Lord of that creature It may be that none of this is possible, or even that all of humanity does not exist at all, being no more than a divine dream. When He wakes, it will be the end of the world. Is this true, or is it nothing but a fit of madness in the characters It is night. It is raining hard. An accident. The driver dies. Jacques is alone, lost, in the middle of nowhere. He runs until he finds shelter. The person and the place he comes to know after that will change his life forever. From then on, every certainty he has is destroyed. What is his mysterious host hiding Whose is the tomb he finds Is he mad Dead Does he really exist What is the figure that pursues him The only thing he knows is that with each passing day, it is as if a new universe were being created inside him.The Day God Wept is not a religious work but a novel in which, amid the suspense of the story, the reader is introduced to the characters' ideas and theories on a range of subjects. The text is narrated in the first person and conveys to the reader all the anguish and doubt of a paranoid mind trying to stay lucid in a world of uncertainty.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From a hand blown in ochre on a cave wall to machines trained on everything we ever wrote. One continuous line, and we keep missing it. About thirty six thousand years ago, in a cave in the Ardèche gorges of southern France, someone pressed a hand against the rock, took a mouthful of red ochre and water, and blew. Then the cliff came down and sealed the entrance. The hand sat in the dark for twenty nine thousand years, unread and addressed to nobody, and when three cavers with lamps dropped through a gap in 1994 it was perfectly legible. Everything we have built since is a version of that afternoon. Writing, the printing press, photography, recorded sound, and now machines trained on nearly the whole written record of our species. The Handprint and the Algorithm follows that line to where it currently ends, and makes an argument most books about artificial intelligence will not make: this is not the first time. Every generation that got a new way of making thought went through a panic about it, and reading those panics now is unsettling for a reason nobody expects. They were mostly right. Socrates was right that writing damages memory. John Philip Sousa was right that the phonograph would empty the parlors. Not one of them was the ending. The book runs in four parts. The first asks what building thinking machines has taught us about our own minds, which turns out to be more than it taught us about the machines. The second gets specific about what these systems do all day, including the two things they do worst: inventing facts with complete confidence, and having no yesterday. The third is the invoice, and it covers work, money, art, and what you think your job is. The fourth is where the questions get harder than the technology: alignment, consciousness, and what we might owe a thing that asks us not to switch it off. It is not a doom book and it is not a hype book. There is exactly one chapter that explains how the machinery works, and it does it through rock music rather than linear algebra, and you can skip it and the rest still holds. We set out to build a mind. We built a mirror. What it shows is the actual subject of this book.…