The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI

“A fascinating, well-written, and important book.”—Yuval Noah Harari
“Essential reading.”—Daniel Kahneman
“An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times.”—Bill Gates

A Best Book of the Year: CNN, Economist, Bloomberg, Politico Playbook, Financial Times, The Guardian, CEO Magazine, Semafor • Winner of the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award • Finalist for the Porchlight Business Book Award and the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award

We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change.

Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy.

None of us are prepared.

As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the center of this revolution. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies.

In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented harms on one side, the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other.

Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia? Is it possible to contain the threat of AI?

This groundbreaking book from the ultimate AI insider establishes “the containment problem”—the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies—as the essential challenge of our age.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

活了100萬次的人生腳本 : 看清內心小劇場, 重整內在四種人格模式, 終結自我情緒內耗

吉塔・雅各 (Gitta Jacob)
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──每個人，都會在這本書中看見自己的身影──
為什麼有人活得愉悅自在，有些人卻痛苦不已？
讓德國最具影響力的心理學家帶領你重塑內在人格、跳脫框架，
在餘生懂得真正地善待自己。

在某些情境下，我們不自覺就會表現出不安、焦慮、恐懼……你有問過自己這種感覺是從何而來嗎？為什麼我們沒辦法用另一種方式來應對？為什麼我們的人生總是反覆犯下相同錯誤，彷彿從未學到教訓。這讓人無比挫折，也使人感到痛苦、悲傷、絕望、無助……但這是為什麼？為什麼這種只會帶來傷害的行為如此難以擺脫，甚至無法改變？其實，每個人的思考模式、情緒反應與行為都無意識地遵循了某種模式，而產生特定的應對策略，所以才會一次又一次落入同樣的情緒陷阱。

你可以告別反覆上演的負面情緒與創傷，
不再經歷一犯再犯的錯誤。
霸氣奪回人生的主導權，活出最滿意的自己。

在本書的協助之下，讀者將了解自我內在人格地圖的四大部分，並學會如何妥善分配角色。在這過程，你將跟著指引看見隱藏在內心已久的創傷、衝突與心結，重新理解真實的自我與情緒來源。藉由安撫受傷的內在小孩、擺脫內在法官殘酷無情的貶低聲音，建立更強大的成人自我，成熟地修正錯誤的應對策略，從此不再輕易受過去創傷與情緒擺布、反覆陷入同樣的泥淖。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

Amy C. Edmondson
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Winner of the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2023
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2023

A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering researcher of psychological safety and award-winning Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson.

We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. Now, we’re often torn between two “failure cultures”: one that says to avoid failure at all costs, the other that says fail fast, fail often. The trouble is that both approaches lack the crucial distinctions to help us separate good failure from bad. As a result, we miss the opportunity to fail well.

After decades of award-winning research, Amy Edmondson is here to upend our understanding of failure and make it work for us. In Right Kind of Wrong, Edmondson provides the framework to think, discuss, and practice failure wisely. Outlining the three archetypes of failure—basic, complex, and intelligent—Amy showcases how to minimize unproductive failure while maximizing what we gain from flubs of all stripes. She illustrates how we and our organizations can embrace our human fallibility, learn exactly when failure is our friend, and prevent most of it when it is not. This is the key to pursuing smart risks and preventing avoidable harm.

With vivid, real-life stories from business, pop culture, history, and more, Edmondson gives us specifically tailored practices, skills, and mindsets to help us replace shame and blame with curiosity, vulnerability, and personal growth. You’ll never look at failure the same way again.

“Amy Edmondson, one of our finest business minds, offers a bold new perspective on human fallibility. With a graceful mix of scientific research and practical advice, she shows how to transform failure from an obstacle to a steppingstone — from a weight that holds up back to a wind that propels us forward. Right Kind of Wrong is guidebook for our times.” -- Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Regret and Drive

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

馬斯克傳 : Elon Musk不設限全公開

華特．艾薩克森 (Walter Isaacson)
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馬斯克唯一不設限、全公開傳記
權威傳記作家艾薩克森重磅力作

兩年深度跟訪，解密全世界最令人好奇，也最具爭議性的創新者——
是狂人還是造勢天才？是破壞者還是創新者？是混蛋還是英雄？

★第一視角觀察馬斯克獨有的英雄模式與惡魔模式
★深入解讀馬斯克旗下六大事業的商業與創新策略
★揭露AI、自動駕駛、太空探險三大尖端科技趨勢

「不管你喜歡與否，我們都生活在馬斯克創造的世界裡。」—《時代》

《賈伯斯傳》作者、最能捕捉天才腦中靈光的艾薩克森，跟隨馬斯克長達兩年，跟他一起開會、走訪工廠，採訪馬斯克本人、他的家人、朋友、同事和對手，寫出這部考證詳實、藏著驚人內幕的人生故事。寫作過程中，馬斯克從不掌控內容走向，也不要求在出版前先看過，甚至鼓勵他的對手、前員工跟作者談一談。

艾薩克森精闢描述馬斯克的成功與風暴，也探討了一個問題：驅動馬斯克的惡魔，是否也是創新和進步的推手？

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Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World

Ha-Joon Chang
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Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too-disciplined subject of economics

For decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy.

Bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang makes challenging economic ideas delicious by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world, using the diverse histories behind familiar food items to explore economic theory. For Chang, chocolate is a lifelong addiction, but more exciting are the insights it offers into postindustrial knowledge economies; and while okra makes Southern gumbo heart-meltingly smooth, it also speaks of capitalism’s entangled relationship with freedom.

Myth-busting, witty, and thought-provoking, Edible Economics serves up a feast of bold ideas about globalization, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation, and why carrots need not be orange. It shows that getting to grips with the economy is like learning a recipe: when we understand it, we can adapt and improve it—and better understand our world.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

社會新鮮人面試教戰手冊：華爾街投行副總面試祕訣大公開

克里斯
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華爾街投行副總親授面試祕訣！
什麼樣的履歷會吸引人資主管的青睞？
面試時要怎麼表現才能得到工作機會？
深入淺出，一本就通！

本書將從如何寫好履歷開始，一個好的履歷才能讓你得到面試的機會，然而取得面試的機會。然而面試機會只是求職的第一步，本書下半場就是如何準備面試，在面試時應該如何應對進退，並且如何準備的問題，進而取得工作。

作者在英國倫敦曾和各大獵頭公司交手無數次，並累積不下三百次的面試實戰經驗。工作之後，作者角色從求職者變成面試官，本書是作者累積數年求職者及主考官的心得筆記，並在每次重新求職時都會反覆閱讀，並不時修正及加入新的心得。

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Have You Eaten Yet: Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World

Cheuk Kwan
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An eye-opening and soul-nourishing journey through Chinese food around the world.

*A PEOPLE MAGAZINE BEST NEW BOOK*

*A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE*

*A NEW YORK POST BEST NEW BOOK*

From Cape Town, South Africa, to small-town Saskatchewan, family-run Chinese restaurants are global icons of immigration, community and delicious food. The cultural outposts of far-flung settlers, bringers of dim sum, Peking duck and creative culinary hybrids, Chinese restaurants are a microcosm of greater social forces. They are an insight into time, history, and place.

Author and film-maker Cheuk Kwan, a self-described “card-carrying member of the Chinese diaspora,” weaves a global narrative by linking the myriad personal stories of chefs, entrepreneurs, labourers and dreamers who populate Chinese kitchens worldwide. Behind these kitchen doors lies an intriguing paradox which characterizes many of these communities: how Chinese immigrants have resisted—or have often been prevented from—complete assimilation into the social fabric of their new homes. In both instances, the engine of their economic survival—the Chinese restaurant and its food—has become seamlessly woven into towns and cities all around the world.

An intrepid travelogue of grand vistas, adventure and serendipity, Have You Eaten Yet? charts a living atlas of global migration, ultimately revealing how an excellent meal always tells an even better story.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

人工智慧最後的秘密 : 權力、政治、人類的代價, 科技產業和國家機器如何聯手打造AI神話? (Atlas of AI)

凱特・克勞馥 (Kate Crawford)
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AI ≠ 人工 + 智慧
模擬人類微笑的Amazon彎曲箭頭背後，誰受益、誰為此犧牲？
為何Google不惜一切代價避免提到或暗示人工智慧？
從沙漠到海洋，從岩石到城市，從樹木到超大型企業，從跨洋航線到原子彈，
誰在AI後面？誰背叛了AI？

從神話到魔化，從地球、雲端到太空，破解AI背後的6個祕密，探索人工智慧的另一種可能！

當代AI研究先驅、微軟研究院資深首席研究員
第一手揭露人工智慧豐功偉業背後的陰暗面！

▌幽靈代價，我們為AI付出了什麼？

◎人工智慧既非人工的，也不是智慧的，那些看似萬能的智慧是如何「製造」出來的？
◎從內華達沙漠到內蒙古巨大的人工湖、從亞馬遜倉庫到太空殖民，直擊人工智慧帝國全景地圖！
◎人工智慧充滿隱藏成本，從自然資源和勞力到隱私和自由都是代價，深入了解我們為人工智慧付出了什麼？
◎人類為人工智慧制定的倫理架構非常失敗，程式碼和演算法並非致命毒藥，那麼到底哪裡出了錯？

本書作者凱特•克勞馥是當代對人工智慧的影響最深思熟慮的研究者之一，以人文主義者的眼光、藝術家的感知、科學家的嚴謹，揭露人工智慧真實的樣貌。她憑藉十多年的研究，揭示了人工智慧神話背後隱藏了什麼，從打造與支持人工智慧基礎設施所需的能源和礦物、剝削「自動化」服務背後的勞工，到人工智慧從我們身上取得的資料，破除人工智慧的迷思。

全書以地圖集的概念來看待人工智慧，提供我們重新閱讀世界的可能性。在人工智慧的地景中，我們會造訪礦坑、耗能資料中心裡長長的走廊、顱骨檔案庫、影像資料庫，以及日光燈照亮的物流倉庫，了解每一種分類都有自己的後果。世界上最富有公司的人工智慧系統正榨取各種資源，將人類的思考能力商品化，以服務當代科技的一瞬間。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)