Martin Ford Books

How will AI evolve, and what major innovations lie ahead? What will its effects be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the trajectory toward human-level machine intelligence, and what concerns should we have as AI progresses? This book features in-depth interviews with twenty-three leading figures in the AI and robotics fields, conducted by bestselling author Martin Ford. He engages with some of the brightest minds, including Demis Hassabis from DeepMind, Ray Kurzweil from Google, Geoffrey Hinton from the University of Toronto, and many others. These conversations delve into the insights and predictions of researchers and entrepreneurs such as Yann LeCun, Fei-Fei Li, Yoshua Bengio, and Andrew Ng, exploring the implications of AI advancements. Ford, a prominent futurist and author of the acclaimed "Rise of the Robots," shares his expertise on what AI and automation could mean for our future. Through these dialogues, the book uncovers the realities of AI's trajectory and the potential challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

Rule of the Robots explores the future implications of artificial intelligence as a uniquely scalable and potentially disruptive technology.

He'd do anything to protect his wife. But what if that meant making the biggest mistake of all? James Casper is one of the good guys. A DEA agent. A loyal husband. With his sights set on the man at the top of the city's opioid crisis, James is about to make the biggest bust of his career. Then his beloved wife Rosie does something terrible, and James must choose: report it--or help her. He knows how this works, and he tells himself he's smart enough to get away with murder. But James's worst enemy knows what they have done--and he won't hesitate to use it to manipulate him. James is dragged into a dark and dangerous world. As events spiral and loyalties are tested, he realizes there's only one way out. And that is to be even more ruthless than the people he's working for. Whatever happens, no matter how far he falls, at least he'll still have Rosie. Won't he?

How to be British Collection Two

With standardising our food, our social customs and even our language, where can the overseas visitor find a truly British experience? The answer lies in The How To Be British Collection.

Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015

A artificial-intelligence entrepreneur offers a stark warning about what we must do to keep an automated economy from being a massively unjust one.

There is a box. Anything you imagine will appear inside. You have one go, one chance to create anything you want. What would you pick? That's exactly the question ten-year-old Timothy Hart gets to answer after discovering The Imagination Box. The greatest toy on earth.

Her old schoolfriends are dead. She might be next. When Ruby hears from her best friend Elizabeth that two of their old classmates have been murdered, Ruby is more certain than ever that leaving her hometown was the right decision. But after Elizabeth suddenly stops responding to texts, and Ruby hears a third classmate has been killed, she knows in her heart what has happened. Elizabeth is dead too. Missbrook Bay is a place haunted by memories Ruby wanted to forget, and people she never wanted to see again, but Ruby has no choice but to go back to investigate. While staying with her ex-boyfriend, she notices a pattern in their full school year photo--the killer seems to be working through victims in a specific order. And after her ex's house is broken into, Ruby realises nowhere and no one is safe. There are still many faces left in that photo. Any one of them could be the next victim--and any one of them could be the killer. And with each death, the killer is getting closer to Ruby.

What will the economy of the future look like? Where will advancing technology, job automation, outsourcing and globalization lead? This groundbreaking book by a Silicon Valley computer engineer explores these questions and shows how accelerating technology is likely to have a highly disruptive influence on our economy in the near future--and may well already be a significant factor in the current global crisis. THE LIGHTS IN THE TUNNEL employs a powerful thought experiment to explore the economy of the future. An imaginary "tunnel of lights" is used to visualize the economic implications of the new technologies that are likely to appear in the coming years and decades. The book directly challenges conventional views of the future and illuminates the danger that lies ahead if we do not plan for the impact of rapidly advancing technology. It also shows how the economic realities of the future might offer solutions to issues such as poverty and climate change.