Author: Kate Crawford
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300209576
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedom What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? In this book Kate Crawford reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of research, award-winning science, and technology, Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the energy and minerals needed to build and sustain its infrastructure, to the exploited workers behind "automated" services, to the data AI collects from us. Rather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms, Crawford offers us a political and a material perspective on what it takes to make artificial intelligence and where it goes wrong. While technical systems present a veneer of objectivity, they are always systems of power. This is an urgent account of what is at stake as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world.
Author: A. Mpashi
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 1779272634
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 107
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Ichi chitabo chilelanda palufyengo nomutitikisha waba muno chalo. Umwana uwali mwifumo lyakwa namayo balanshanya nechitumbi chamukote uo abantu baile mukushika. Umukote aeba umwana ukuti ekayefyalwa pachalo pantu tapaba cisuma nangu chimo. Umwana uwali mwifumo akana ati bamuleke akaye imwena. Panuma umukote nomwana ashilafyalwa basuminishanya ukuti pakuti umwana akeyemwenekesha ulufyengo lwaba muchalo, akayefyalwa chibulu. Pakulekelesha, amashiwi yamukote yafikilishiwa ilyo umwana aimwena ulufyengo lwaba muchalo...Written in magic realism, the novella exposes the absurdities of life, its injustices and hypocrisy. A corpse of an old man being taken for burial converses with an unborn child trying to persuade him not to be born in a cruel world. The child refuses to heed the advice and the two agree that the child should be born dumb and see for himself the folly of living. The old man's words prove to be true in a development of dramatic events.
Author: Ryan Calo
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1783476737
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 425
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Like the Internet before it, robotics is a socially and economically transformative technology. Robot Law explores how the increasing sophistication of robots and their widespread deployment into hospitals, public spaces, and battlefields requires rethinking of a wide variety of philosophical and public policy issues, including how this technology interacts with existing legal regimes, and thus may inspire changes in policy and in law. This volume collects the efforts of a diverse group of scholars who each, in their own way, has worked to overcome barriers in order to facilitate necessary and timely discussions of a technology in its infancy. Identifying controversial legal, ethical, and philosophical problems, the authors reveal how issues surrounding robotics and regulation are more complicated than engineers could have anticipated, and just how much definitional and applied work remains to be done. This groundbreaking examination of a brand-new reality will be of interest and of use to a variety of groups as the authors include engineers, ethicists, lawyers, roboticists, philosophers, and serving military.
Author: Mary Ann Calo
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472032303
Category : African American art
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Rewrites the history of African American art and artists in the inter-war years
Author: Rosaura Sànchez
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611920925
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Examines factors which contribute to the bilingualism found in the Mexican American community of the Southwest.
Author: Sasha L. Miller
Publisher: Less Than Three Press, LLC
ISBN: 1936202743
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
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Anike is the royal artist, kept extremely busy by a demanding prince who wants every illustrious moment of his reign recorded in ink and paint. His latest task is recording the visit of the ambassadors from the country of Marana, long closed off from the world and only just newly opened. But when they arrive, and Anike catches his first glimpse of the exotic Maranans, painting is the very last thing on his mind—and all that could go wrong by falling for them the first.
Author: Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105561097
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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The present songbook is an anthology of the songs (in the order of composition) of Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar known as Prabha'ta Sam'giita. In February 1982, Shrii Sarkar gave to the world the gift of Neohumanism. Neohumanism is in fact a renaissance of the 7500 year old Principle of Social Equality (Sama Samaja Tattva) propounded by Lord Shiva. Neohumanism expands the scope of humanist concern to include the plant, animal and earth realms. Neohumanism focuses its efforts on controlling the baneful consequences of narrow sentiments such as geo (geographical) sentiment, socio (religious/ethnic) sentiment and humanist sentiment. It is the intensity of devotion (bhakti) or mystical love (Ishq-e-haqiqi) that gives the Neohumanist the capacity to rise above these sentiments, the ability to enlighten others about them, and the capacity to fight these sentiments. Neohumanism liberates people from their limitations and doubts and fills them with courage, determination and limitless love.
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Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Author: Yaron Matras
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110197243
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 333
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Mixed Languages are speech varieties that arise in bilingual settings, often as markers of ethnic separateness. They combine structures inherited from different parent languages, often resulting in odd and unique splits that present a challenge to theories of contact-induced change as well as genetic classification. This collection of articles is devoted to the theoretical and empirical controversies that surround the study of Mixed Languages. Issues include definitions and prototypes, similarities and differences to other contact languages such as pidgins and creoles, the role of codeswitching in the emergence of Mixed Languages, the role of deliberate and conscious mixing, the question of the existence of a Mixed Language continuum, and the position of Mixed Languages in general models of language change and contact-induced change in particular. An introductory chapter surveys the current study of Mixed Languages. Contributors include leading historical linguists, contact linguists and typologists, among them Carol Myers-Scotton, Sarah Grey Thomason,William Croft, Thomas Stolz, Maarten Mous, Ad Backus, Evgeniy Golovko, Peter Bakker, Yaron Matras.
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Languages : en
Pages : 288
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