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A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI by Max Bennett

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621893 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621893] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI Author: Max Bennett Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: Computers & Technology Publisher's Summary: Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be. 'I found this book amazing' Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow The entirety of the human brain’s 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all the way to the modern human brains. Each breakthrough emerged from new sets of brain modifications, and equipped animals with a new suite of intellectual faculties. These five breakthroughs are the organising map to this book, and they make up our itinerary for our adventure back in time. Each breakthrough also has fascinating corollaries to breakthroughs in AI. Indeed, there will be plenty of such surprises along the way. For instance: the innovation that enabled AI to beat humans in the game of Go – temporal difference reinforcement learning – was an innovation discovered by our fish ancestors over 500 million years ago. The solutions to many of the current mysteries in AI – such as ‘common sense’ – can be found in the tiny brain of a mouse. Where do emotions come from? Research suggests that they may have arisen simply as a solution to navigation in ancient worm brains. Unravelling this evolutionary story will reveal the hidden features of human intelligence and with them, just how your mind came to be.

Strange But True Tales of Car Collecting: Drowned Bugattis, Buried Belvederes, Felonious Ferraris and other Wild Stories of Automotive Misadventure by Keith Martin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583568 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583568] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strange But True Tales of Car Collecting: Drowned Bugattis, Buried Belvederes, Felonious Ferraris and other Wild Stories of Automotive Misadventure Author: Keith Martin Narrator: Adam Verner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres: Computers & Technology Publisher's Summary: Strange But True Tales of Car Collecting recounts the wildest car-collecting stories, focusing on tales of the most eccentric and over-the-top collectors and collections from around the world.  Most car collectors exhibit a healthy enthusiasm for their hobby with a tendency to dig into their favorite marques, chase parts, swap stories, and generally live the car-enthusiast lifestyle. Some, however, step over that fine line between enthusiasm and obsession—and that’s the dusty place where these legendary car-collector stories come from. - Have you heard of the fellow who squirreled away dozens of Chevelles, Camaros, and other classic muscle cars in semi-trailers? - How about the president of Shakespeare fishing rods who sold 30 Bugattis for a mere $85,000? - What about the English nobleman who cut up and buried his Ferrari horde in an elaborate insurance scam? - Or how about the Duesenberg abandoned in a Manhattan parking garage for decades only to be uncovered by Jay Leno? They only get crazier from there. This entertaining book is a must-have for any car enthusiast. Both car collectors and fans of outrageous classic car, muscle car, and sports car stories will find entertainment in these tales of collectors who’ve gone off the rails.

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott Shapiro

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620563 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620563] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks Author: Scott Shapiro Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres: Computers & Technology Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. It's a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know how it works. And without understanding how our information is stored, used and protected, we are vulnerable to having it exploited. In Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, Scott Shapiro exposes the secrets of the digital age. With lucidity and wit, he establishes that cybercrime has less to do with defective programming than with the faulty wiring of our psyches and society. And because hacking is a human story, he tells the fascinating tales of perpetrators including Robert Morris Jr, the graduate student who accidentally crashed the internet in the 1980s, and the Bulgarian 'Dark Avenger' who invented the first mutating computer-virus engine. We also meet a sixteen-year-old from South Boston who took control of Paris Hilton's cell phone and the Russian intelligence officers who sought to take control of a US election, among others. In telling their stories, Shapiro exposes the hackers' tool kits and gives fresh answers to vital questions: why is the internet so vulnerable? What can we do in response? The result is a lively and original account of the future of hacking, espionage and war, and of how to live in an era of cybercrime. ©2023 Scott Shapiro (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses by Katie Spalding

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622446 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622446] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses Author: Katie Spalding Narrator: Susie Riddell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 53 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Genres: Computers & Technology Publisher's Summary: Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. “As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius – but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” So begins Katie Spalding’s spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how genius may not be as irrefutably great as we commonly understand. While most of us may never become Einstein, it may surprise you to learn that there’s probably a bunch of stuff you can do that Einstein couldn’t. And, as Spalding shows, the famous prodigies she explores here were quite odd by any definition. For example:   - Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb, believed that he could communicate with the undead and built the world’s very first hotline to heaven: the Spirit Phone. - Marie and Pierre Curie, famous for discovering radioactivity, slept next to a lump of radioactive material for years and strapped it to their arms to watch it burn them in real-time. - Lord Byron, acclaimed British poet, literally took a bear with him to university. - Isaac Newton discovered the laws of gravity and motion, but he also looked up at the sun without eye protection. The result? Three days of blindness. - Tesla, whose scientific work led to the invention of the AC unit, fell in love with a pigeon. Edison's Ghosts is filled with examples of the so-called best of humanity doing, to put it bluntly, some really dumb shit.  You’ll discover stories that deserve to be told but never are: the hilarious, regrettable, and downright bafflingly lesser-known achievements that never made it into our history books, until now.

The Wager by David Grann

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618303 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618303] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wager Author: David Grann Narrator: Dion Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 28 minutes Release date: May 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Computers & Technology Publisher's Summary: THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER  *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* 'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I’ve ever read' Guardian  ‘The greatest sea story ever told’ Spectator 'I cannot think of anyone who would not love this book . . . It is an extraordinary true story, beautifully written' Richard Osman ‘A cracking yarn… Grann’s taste for desperate predicaments finds its fullest expression here’ Observer From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.   On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s ship The Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon, The Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The crew, marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing 2,500 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.   Then, six months later, another, even more decrepit, craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways and they had a very different story to tell. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes – they were mutineers. The first group responded with counter-charges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous captain and his henchmen. While stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death—for whomever the court found guilty could hang.