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The most human human : what talking with computers teaches us about what it means to be alive / by Christian, Brian,1984-(CARDINAL)558941;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-303)."The Most Human Human" is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human. Its starting point is the annual Turing Test, which pits artificial intelligence programs against people to determine if computers can "think".
Subjects: Human beings.; Philosophical anthropology.; Turing test.;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 11
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Ex machina [videorecording] / by Garland, Alex,1970-film director,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)636789; Macdonald, Andrew,1966-film producer.; Reich, Allon,film producer.; Gleeson, Domhnall,1983-actor.(CARDINAL)832958; Vikander, Alicia,1988-actor.(CARDINAL)788516; Isaac, Oscar,actor.(CARDINAL)832684; Mizuno, Sonoya,actor.(CARDINAL)623125; Universal Pictures International,production company.; FilmFour (Firm),production company.(CARDINAL)346669; DNA Films,production company.; Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)340129; A24 Media,publisher.;
Written and directed by Alex Garland ; produced by Andrew MacDonald and Allon Reich.Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Sonoya Mizuno, Oscar Isaac.Caleb, a 24-year-old coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as the relationship between Caleb, Ava, and Nathan intensifies.MPAA rating: R; for graphic nudity, language, sexual references and some violence.Blu-ray; Region A; 1080P high definition; 16 x 9 widescreen (2.40:1); requires Blu-ray player.
Subjects: Science fiction films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Blu-Ray-Video discs.; Videodiscs.; Blu-Rays.; Androids; Artificial intelligence; Turing test; Internet industry; Spanish subtitles.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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Ex_machina [videorecording]. by Garland, Alex,1970-film director,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)636789; Isaac, Oscar,actor.(CARDINAL)832684; Macdonald, Andrew,1966-film producer.; Reich, Allon,film producer.; Vikander, Alicia,1988-actor.(CARDINAL)788516;
Written and directed by Alex Garland ; Produced by Andrew MacDonald and Allon Reich ; Music, Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow ; Production designer, Mark Digby ; Editor, Mark Day ; Director of photography, Rob Hardy.Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander.Caleb, a coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. When Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as the relationship between Caleb, Ava, and Nathan intensifies.Rated: MA15+DVD ; Region 2, 4 ; PAL.
Subjects: Science fiction; Androids; Artificial intelligence; Internet industry; Science fiction.; Thrillers.; Turing test; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Feature films;
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Artificial intelligence : thinking machines and smart robots with science activities for kids / by Smibert, Angie,author.(CARDINAL)501410; Cornell, Alexis,illustrator.(CARDINAL)627366;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-116) and index.An introduction to artificial intelligence offers activities, including taking a Turing test, detecting patterns, and making a robot.970L
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Robotics; Robots;
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What is life? : investigating the nature of life in the age of synthetic biology / by Regis, Edward,1944-(CARDINAL)173805;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-187) and index.The second creation -- Birth of a cell -- Schrödinger -- Unlocking the three secrets of life -- The fiftieth-anniversary coronation and dismissal -- ATP and the meaning of life -- Origins -- The spandrels of San Marco -- The twilight zone -- The synthetic cell Turing test -- What is life?
Subjects: Life (Biology); Vital force.;
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The body electric : a novel / by Revis, Beth.(CARDINAL)339466; Revis, Beth.Turing test.;
Ella Shepherd discovers that she has the ability to alter other people's memories, but soon learns that she may have been a victim of memory alteration herself as she seeks to uncover the mystery surrounding the technology --Publisher.
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Science fiction.; Dreams; Memory; Subconsciousness; Trust;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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The three languages of politics : talking across the political divides / by Kling, Arnold S.,author.(CARDINAL)752993; Cato Institute,publisher.(CARDINAL)135624;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-142) and index.The nature of political arguments -- Applying the three-axes model -- Fast political thinking and simple moral frames -- Beyond your dominant heuristic -- Your mind on politics: motivated reasoning -- Further thoughts on human nature -- The state of closure: discrediting the opponent -- The ideological turing test -- I'm reasonable, they're not -- Using all three languages: examples -- Donald Trump and the three-axes model - Conclusion -- Appendix: testing the three-axes model.An exploration of political communication, describing in detail the three groups--progressives, conservatives, and libertarians--that make up America's political landscape and whose political discussions lead to increased polarization rather than to agreement.
Subjects: Communication in politics.; Political culture.;
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Soft science / by Choi, Franny,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just of identity, but of consciousness -- how to be tender and feeling and still survive a violent world filled with artificial intelligence and automation. We are dropped straight into the tangled intersections of technology, violence, erasure, agency, gender, and loneliness." -- Amazon.com.
Subjects: Poetry.; American poetry.;
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Turing's graveyard : stories / by Hawkins, Terence,author.;
Turing's graveyard -- An event in Judea in the consulates of Galba and Sulla, in the 787th year after the founding of Rome -- A call to arms -- The darkness at the center of everything -- Crossed wires -- My summer vacation -- Acts of contrition -- The thing that mattered -- Tokens of affection -- Like Leonardo's notebooks -- Coal town heart -- A fragment from Raymond Chandler's first scenario for The Sopranos -- Changeling -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- Past & upcoming titlesThese stories, full of dark humor and imagination, test the boundaries of science and superstition, reason and faith, are for readers who like to think.
Subjects: Short stories.; Psychological fiction.;
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I've been thinking / by Dennett, D. C.(Daniel Clement),author.(CARDINAL)330710;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue. Lucky Dan -- Part one. Off to a fast start : Childhood ; Music: an important digression ; Wesleyan, then on to Harvard (1959-63) ; Oxford, 1963-65 ; Discovering naturalism--a different way of being a philosopher? -- Part two. Other minds : UC Irvine, 1965-71 ; Moving back east ; A year at Harvard, meeting Jerry Fodor ; Academic politics at Tufts ; Where am I? ; Meanwhile, back at the farm ; Finding Xanthippe, leaving the farm ; Honorary family members, Behavioral and Brain Sciences -- Part three. My odyssey : Bristaol and All Souls, 1978-79 ; CASBS, 1979-80, and meeting Dgoulas Hofstadter ; Rubik's cube, Prague, and Dahlem ; "Are rabbits birds?" and other memorable phone calls ; Ruth Millikan, who broke through the unsound barrier ; Big George and the curricular software studio ; The Locke lectures and the Vervet monkeys in Amboseli ; The Center for Cognitive Studies, adventures with Nicholas Humphrey ; Italian connections and their aftermaths ; Consciousness Explained ; The Turing test as more than a thought experiment ; Adventures with robots: the whole iguana, cog, and tati ; Seymour Papert and Marvin Minsky ; Breaking the Spell ; Finding the funny bone with Jonathan Miller and Matthew Hurley ; A troika of russian adventures ; TED ; Why, oh why, do I love... ; One more Eden: the Santa Fe Institute -- Part four. Academic battles : The history of philosophy, Richard Rorty ; Academic bullies and iconoclasts ; Reverse engineering one's thinking tools ; What if I'm wrong?"Daniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of the mind. Do we have free will? What is consciousness and how did it come about? What distinguishes human minds from the minds of animals? Dennett's answers have profoundly shaped our age of philosophical thought. In I've Been Thinking, he reflects on his amazing career and lifelong scientific fascinations" --
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement); Cognitive science.; Thought and thinking.; Philosophy, Modern; Philosophy, Modern; Philosophers;
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