Artificial Life

Germany, 1911. Certain things are expected of a woman. Defiant Mimi Reventlow has chosen to be the woman she wants to be. For now, that’s the resident, if temporary, photographer in Laichingen. Here, against the odds, in a vocation uncommon for her gender, she maintains a struggling studio. She cares for her aging uncle and mentor. She’s captured the affections of a roguish young local. And she dares to engage in a secret affair with Johann, the village’s prodigal son. But when tragedy strikes, Mimi’s world is thrown into a state of flux.

Do you feel overwhelmed by the relentless stream of digital noise and the constant headlines about how artificial intelligence is changing the world overnight? If you have ever felt curious but deeply skeptical about AI, or worried that it is too complicated for your daily routine, you are not alone. In "AI Made Simple," Molly Boulware strips away the hype, fear, and dense technical jargon to show you that AI is not a magical entity to be feared, but a highly capable, everyday digital companion.

In Artificial You, Susan Schneider says that it is inevitable that AI will take intelligence in new directions but urges that it is up to us to carve out a sensible path forward. As AI technology turns inward, reshaping the brain, as well as outward, potentially creating machine minds, it is crucial to beware. Homo sapiens, as mind designers, will be playing with "tools" they do not understand how to use: the self, the mind, and consciousness.

From Nick Cutter—the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Dorians and modern classics The Troop and The Deep, and “one of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste)—comes an unforgettable collection of four all-new novellas. The Coffin Worms: A young woman’s obsession with a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Imagine an AI diagnoses cancer before a doctor can. It saves lives. Yet at the same moment, another AI decides which news you see – and which you don't. Is that progress? Or control? An algorithm that, like an invisible conductor, directs billions of...