Blaise Arcas (36 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Are we living in reality? Is this the past, or the future? And is there a human on the other side of this screen? These questions rear up and twist back on themselves in Ubi Sunt, a genre-breaking imaginative work by Blaise Ag era y Arcas. The title, borrowed from Latin and Medieval poetics, describes elegiac verses modeled on the formula Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt?, meaning Where are those who were before us? Such was the mood of the anonymous early English poets who spun stories of giants and ancient battles amid the tumbled Roman masonry of 8th century Europe. Fragments of our own digital civilization stand like ruined columns throughout Ubi Sunt--transcribed lectures and drone footage, recorded cab rides and text messages. In a parallel present, an engineer is caught in the solipsistic first-person loop of a life in tech during COVID lockdown. Is this book fiction or nonfiction? Though speculative, its historical material is accurate, and its present tense is drawn from life; some of its AI dialogs, too, are generated by interaction with a real large neural language model. Postmodern in the spirit of W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturnand Benjamin Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World, Ubi Sunt is an erudite, compulsively readable, all-terrain joyride across the uncanny valley between yesterday and tomorrow.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Are we living in reality? Is this the past, or the future? And is there a human on the other side of this screen? These questions rear up and twist back on themselves in Ubi Sunt, a genre-breaking imaginative work by Blaise Ag era y Arcas. The title, borrowed from Latin and Medieval poetics, describes elegiac verses modeled on the formula Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt?, meaning Where are those who were before us? Such was the mood of the anonymous early English poets who spun stories of giants and ancient battles amid the tumbled Roman masonry of 8th century Europe. Fragments of our own digital civilization stand like ruined columns throughout Ubi Sunt--transcribed lectures and drone footage, recorded cab rides and text messages. In a parallel present, an engineer is caught in the solipsistic first-person loop of a life in tech during COVID lockdown. Is this book fiction or nonfiction? Though speculative, its historical material is accurate, and its present tense is drawn from life; some of its AI dialogs, too, are generated by interaction with a real large neural language model. Postmodern in the spirit of W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturnand Benjamin Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World, Ubi Sunt is an erudite, compulsively readable, all-terrain joyride across the uncanny valley between yesterday and tomorrow.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. What intelligence really is, and how AI's emergence is a natural consequence of evolution.What intelligence really is, and how AI's emergence is a natural consequence of evolution.Included in the Financial Times's Best Books of 2025: TechnologyIncluded in Bloomberg News's "The 82 Books That Top Business Leaders Couldn't Put Down"2026 PROSE Award Winner: Engineering and TechnologyIt has come as a shock to some AI researchers that a large neural net that predicts next words seems to produce a system with general intelligence. Yet this is consistent with a long-held view among some neuroscientists that the brain evolved precisely to predict the future-the "predictive brain" hypothesis.In What Is Intelligence?, Blaise Ag era y Arcas takes up this idea-that prediction is fundamental not only to intelligence and the brain but to life itself-and explores the wide-ranging implications. These include radical new perspectives on the computational properties of living systems, the evolutionary and social origins of intelligence, the relationship between models and reality, entropy and the nature of time, the meaning of free will, the problem of consciousness, and the ethics of machine intelligence.The book offers a unified picture of intelligence from molecules to organisms, societies, and AI, drawing from a wide array of literature in many fields, including computer science and machine learning, biology, physics, and neuroscience. It also adds recent and novel findings from the author, his research team, and colleagues. Combining technical rigor and deep up-to-the-minute knowledge about AI development, the natural sciences (especially neuroscience), and philosophical literacy, What Is Intelligence? argues-quite against the grain-that certain modern AI systems do indeed have a claim to intelligence, consciousness, and free will. "A far reaching probe into the nature of intelligence and an answer to the question of whether AI has it"-- Provided by publisher. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. What intelligence really is, and how AI's emergence is a natural consequence of evolution. Included in the Financial Times's Best Books of 2025: TechnologyIncluded in Bloomberg News's "The 82 Books That Top Business Leaders Couldn't Put Down"2026 PROSE Award Winner: Engineering and TechnologyIt has come as a shock to some AI researchers that a large neural net that predicts next words seems to produce a system with general intelligence. Yet this is consistent with a long-held view among some neuroscientists that the brain evolved precisely to predict the future-the "predictive brain" hypothesis.In What Is Intelligence?, Blaise Agüera y Arcas takes up this idea-that prediction is fundamental not only to intelligence and the brain but to life itself-and explores the wide-ranging implications. These include radical new perspectives on the computational properties of living systems, the evolutionary and social origins of intelligence, the relationship between models and reality, entropy and the nature of time, the meaning of free will, the problem of consciousness, and the ethics of machine intelligence.The book offers a unified picture of intelligence from molecules to organisms, societies, and AI, drawing from a wide array of literature in many fields, including computer science and machine learning, biology, physics, and neuroscience. It also adds recent and novel findings from the author, his research team, and colleagues. Combining technical rigor and deep up-to-the-minute knowledge about AI development, the natural sciences (especially neuroscience), and philosophical literacy, What Is Intelligence? argues-quite against the grain-that certain modern AI systems do indeed have a claim to intelligence, consciousness, and free will. …

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -What intelligence really is, and how AI's emergence is a natural consequence of evolution. Included in the Financial Times's Best Books of 2025: TechnologyIncluded in Bloomberg News's 'The 82 Books That Top Business Leaders Couldn't Put Down'2026 PROSE Award Winner: Engineering and TechnologyIt has come as a shock to some AI researchers that a large neural net that predicts next words seems to produce a system with general intelligence. Yet this is consistent with a long-held view among some neuroscientists that the brain evolved precisely to predict the futurethe "predictive brain" hypothesis.In What Is Intelligence , Blaise Agüera y Arcas takes up this ideathat prediction is fundamental not only to intelligence and the brain but to life itselfand explores the wide-ranging implications. These include radical new perspectives on the computational properties of living systems, the evolutionary and social origins of intelligence, the relationship between models and reality, entropy and the nature of time, the meaning of free will, the problem of consciousness, and the ethics of machine intelligence.The book offers a unified picture of intelligence from molecules to organisms, societies, and AI, drawing from a wide array of literature in many fields, including computer science and machine learning, biology, physics, and neuroscience. It also adds recent and novel findings from the author, his research team, and colleagues. Combining technical rigor and deep up-to-the-minute knowledge about AI development, the natural sciences (especially neuroscience), and philosophical literacy, What Is Intelligence arguesquite against the grainthat certain modern AI systems do indeed have a claim to intelligence, consciousness, and free will. 624 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -What intelligence really is, and how AI's emergence is a natural consequence of evolution. Included in the Financial Times's Best Books of 2025: TechnologyIncluded in Bloomberg News's 'The 82 Books That Top Business Leaders Couldn't Put Down'2026 PROSE Award Winner: Engineering and TechnologyIt has come as a shock to some AI researchers that a large neural net that predicts next words seems to produce a system with general intelligence. Yet this is consistent with a long-held view among some neuroscientists that the brain evolved precisely to predict the futurethe "predictive brain" hypothesis.In What Is Intelligence , Blaise Agüera y Arcas takes up this ideathat prediction is fundamental not only to intelligence and the brain but to life itselfand explores the wide-ranging implications. These include radical new perspectives on the computational properties of living systems, the evolutionary and social origins of intelligence, the relationship between models and reality, entropy and the nature of time, the meaning of free will, the problem of consciousness, and the ethics of machine intelligence.The book offers a unified picture of intelligence from molecules to organisms, societies, and AI, drawing from a wide array of literature in many fields, including computer science and machine learning, biology, physics, and neuroscience. It also adds recent and novel findings from the author, his research team, and colleagues. Combining technical rigor and deep up-to-the-minute knowledge about AI development, the natural sciences (especially neuroscience), and philosophical literacy, What Is Intelligence arguesquite against the grainthat certain modern AI systems do indeed have a claim to intelligence, consciousness, and free will. 624 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -What intelligence really is, and how AI's emergence is a natural consequence of evolution. Included in the Financial Times's Best Books of 2025: TechnologyIncluded in Bloomberg News's 'The 82 Books That Top Business Leaders Couldn't Put Down'2026 PROSE Award Winner: Engineering and TechnologyIt has come as a shock to some AI researchers that a large neural net that predicts next words seems to produce a system with general intelligence. Yet this is consistent with a long-held view among some neuroscientists that the brain evolved precisely to predict the futurethe "predictive brain" hypothesis.In What Is Intelligence , Blaise Agüera y Arcas takes up this ideathat prediction is fundamental not only to intelligence and the brain but to life itselfand explores the wide-ranging implications. These include radical new perspectives on the computational properties of living systems, the evolutionary and social origins of intelligence, the relationship between models and reality, entropy and the nature of time, the meaning of free will, the problem of consciousness, and the ethics of machine intelligence.The book offers a unified picture of intelligence from molecules to organisms, societies, and AI, drawing from a wide array of literature in many fields, including computer science and machine learning, biology, physics, and neuroscience. It also adds recent and novel findings from the author, his research team, and colleagues. Combining technical rigor and deep up-to-the-minute knowledge about AI development, the natural sciences (especially neuroscience), and philosophical literacy, What Is Intelligence arguesquite against the grainthat certain modern AI systems do indeed have a claim to intelligence, consciousness, and free will.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - What intelligence really is, and how AI's emergence is a natural consequence of evolution. Included in the Financial Times's Best Books of 2025: TechnologyIncluded in Bloomberg News's 'The 82 Books That Top Business Leaders Couldn't Put Down'2026 PROSE Award Winner: Engineering and TechnologyIt has come as a shock to some AI researchers that a large neural net that predicts next words seems to produce a system with general intelligence. Yet this is consistent with a long-held view among some neuroscientists that the brain evolved precisely to predict the futurethe "predictive brain" hypothesis.In What Is Intelligence , Blaise Agüera y Arcas takes up this ideathat prediction is fundamental not only to intelligence and the brain but to life itselfand explores the wide-ranging implications. These include radical new perspectives on the computational properties of living systems, the evolutionary and social origins of intelligence, the relationship between models and reality, entropy and the nature of time, the meaning of free will, the problem of consciousness, and the ethics of machine intelligence.The book offers a unified picture of intelligence from molecules to organisms, societies, and AI, drawing from a wide array of literature in many fields, including computer science and machine learning, biology, physics, and neuroscience. It also adds recent and novel findings from the author, his research team, and colleagues. Combining technical rigor and deep up-to-the-minute knowledge about AI development, the natural sciences (especially neuroscience), and philosophical literacy, What Is Intelligence arguesquite against the grainthat certain modern AI systems do indeed have a claim to intelligence, consciousness, and free will.…

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