Technology
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The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future
Hardback
The first biography of the enigmatic leader of the AI revolution, charting his ascent within the tech world as well as his ambitions for this powerful new technology
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The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI
Hardback
An acclaimed critic, journalist and songwriter-musician tells the story of art’s relation to machines, from the Baroque period to the age of AI
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Fatal Abstraction: Why the Managerial Class Loses Control of Software
Hardback
A tech insider explains how capitalism and software development make for such a dangerous mix
Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
Paperback
The hidden history of the pocket calculator—a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb and went with us to the moon—and the mathematicians, designers and inventors who brought it to life
Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
Paperback
In the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the seamstress. Today, it has come for the writer, physician, programmer and attorney