Artificial Intelligence: Modern Magic or Dangerous Future?

Yorick Wilks
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Artificial intelligence has long been a mainstay of science fiction and increasingly it feels as if AI is entering our everyday lives, with technology like Apple's Siri now prominent, and self-driving cars almost upon us. But what do we actually mean when we talk about 'AI'? Are the sentient machines of 2001 or The Matrix a real possibility or will real-world artificial intelligence look and feel very different? What has it done for us so far? And what technologies could it yield in the future?

AI expert Yorick Wilks takes a journey through the history of artificial intelligence up to the present day, examining its origins, controversies and achievements, as well as looking into just how it works. He also considers the future, assessing whether these technologies could menace our way of life, but also how we are all likely to benefit from AI applications in the years to come. Entertaining, enlightening, and keenly argued, this is the essential one-stop guide to the AI debate.

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蛤蟆先生去看心理師 (Counselling for Toads)

羅伯.狄保德 (Robert de Board)
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讓我們與蛤蟆先生一起走趟心靈成長的旅程，探索憂鬱與自卑、軟弱、愛炫耀的個性究竟來源於何處，反思童年經歷的深刻影響，以及如何才能在心理上真正長大成人，獨立、自信、充滿希望地生活。

這本老少咸宜、令人愉悅的作品，角色取材自英國經典童話《柳林中的風聲》，作者將心理治療過程運用在動物主角們身上：主角蛤蟆先生因為憂鬱症而離群索居，好友河鼠、鼴鼠和老獾擔憂他可能會做傻事，大力慫恿他去找心理諮商師蒼鷺。蒼鷺運用溝通分析（Transactional Analysis）協助蛤蟆先生面對內在小孩和成人，學會分析自己的感覺，發展情緒智商。到了書末，他恢復了以前的開朗，展開全新的旅程。

故事中涵蓋憤怒、潛意識、自我審判、兒童的自我狀態、父母的自我狀態、成人的自我狀態，適應性兒童、挑剔型父母、共謀、情商等心理學理論。將心理知識巧妙融入故事情節，解析20多個心理學專業名詞、可說是展現心理諮商療程的標準範本。

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Sex Robots and Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex, and Death

Jenny Kleeman
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A timely investigation into the forces that are driving innovation in the four core areas of human experience: birth, food, sex, and death

In Sex Robots and Vegan Meat, award-winning journalist and documentary maker Jenny Kleeman takes us on a journey into the world of the people who are changing what it means to be human. Focusing on the central pillars of the human experience - birth, food, sex, and death - Kleeman examines the people who are driving some truly amazing, and perhaps worrying, innovations. We are on the brink of seismic changes in the ways we live and die, from babies grown in artificial wombs to lab-produced meat; from sex robots able to hold polite conversation, and otherwise, to being able to choose to end our days with the perfect, painless, automated death. Our journey from cradle to grave is developing in ways which involve more and more technology and less and less human interaction. Might these advances in technology serve to rob us of our humanity?

In this book, Kleeman takes a profound look at what the future might have in store and asks some provocative questions along the way. Kleeman places these scientists front and center and asks what is driving and motivating them. Are they entrepreneurs in it for the greater good of human advancement, or might there be more sinister - i.e. monetary - motivations in play?

Kleeman is a skilled and subtle interrogator and travels with the listener on a fascinating exploration of the changes afoot and their implications for who we are as a society - and as human beings. It’s an immersive, eye-opening, and hugely entertaining journey into a world of extraordinary visionaries on the front line of a social revolution.

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設計幸福：經濟學×心理學×行為科學，實現理想人生的務實思維 (Happiness by Design)

保羅．多倫 (Paul Dolan)
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※諾貝爾經濟學獎得主、《快思慢想》作者丹尼爾．康納曼親為本書作序※

倫敦政經學院行為科學家保羅．多倫，
結合經濟學、心理學與行為科學的研究洞見，
告訴你真正持久又簡單的幸福之道。

市面上有許多作品探討如何獲得幸福快樂，
但行為科學家保羅．多倫將「幸福」這個抽象概念，
轉變成一道可衡量與改變的科學原則：愉悅—目標原則。
諾貝爾經濟學獎得主丹尼爾．康納曼曾經試圖測量人們的幸福感受，
而保羅．多倫則將康納曼的實驗延伸，
因為康納曼的實驗只測量受試者的「愉悅」量表，
忽略受試者對於「目標」的需求。
因為測量愉悅，就像是拍下一張張照片的當下瞬間，
但關於幸福感，則應考量人們的長期感受。
他在書中提出諸多實驗結論，告訴讀者如何設計務實行動計畫，
採取「行為的輕推」，養成能確實獲得長期幸福的習慣。
此外，他也試圖釐清諸多導致人們無法過得幸福的思維謬誤 ......　

與其強逼自己洗心革面徹底過著截然不同的生活，
不如學習做自己的幸福設計師，讓幸福得來更容易。

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Tomorrow's Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future

Richard Susskind
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In its first and second editions, Tomorrow's Lawyers became an international bestseller, widely read and cited by practitioners and students. The third edition focuses on the law and lawyers in the 2020s.

For Richard Susskind, the future of legal service is neither Grisham nor Rumpole. Instead, he predicts a world of online courts, AI-based global legal businesses, disruptive legal technologies, liberalized markets, commoditization, alternative sourcing, simulated practice on the metaverse, and many new legal jobs.

This volume is a definitive and updated introduction to this future - for aspiring lawyers, and for all who want to modernize and upgrade our legal and justice systems. It offers practical guidance for everyone intending to build careers and businesses in law.

Written in an era of greater technological advance than humanity has ever witnessed, this work is a call to arms: it challenges those who feel that the law and lawyers are somehow immune from technological advance; it draws attention to the unaffordability and inaccessibility of legal service, for businesses and citizens alike; it invites the next generation of lawyers to harness the power of technology in improving and even overhauling the way in which legal and court service is currently provided.

Tomorrow's Lawyers identifies new opportunities for lawyers, new ways of helping clients and the community. It enjoins its readers to become involved in building the systems that will replace outmoded forms of legal work. It argues that it is both a privilege and an obligation for tomorrow's lawyers to embrace and bring about change.

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筆遇

沈祖堯, 潘誦軒合著
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《筆遇》是一個徹頭徹尾的奇遇。

一位學者教授和一個少年學生在一次中學畢業典禮上相遇，雖然年齡相隔三十多載，雖然背景閱歷大不相同，兩人更相距千里。一個身處香港，主理大學和醫療；一個留學悉尼，主修法律。透過文字，藉著書信，他們還交換了兩代對人生、時事、社會和家庭的看法。如今相識四年，做過大學校長的已經離開了領導的崗位，做大學生的亦將畢業找出路了，兩人仍然遙遙相距，但已經成為好友知己。很多事情都不用掛在嘴邊，反而用筆墨紙張，寫幾句鼓勵和慰問，來得更受用。

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