Tag: Machines

Free Download When Machines Learn: AI and the Transformation of Society by Lars Meyer
English | January 4th, 2024 | ISBN: 1456643924 | 146 pages | True EPUB | 0.74 MB
Discover the Dawn of a New Era: The Ties Between Artificial Intelligence and Our Future

Free Download Hemmings Muscle Machines – February 2024
English | 78 pages | True PDF | 55.6 MB

Free Download Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology by Adrienne Mayor
English | November 27, 2018 | ISBN: 0691183511, 0691202265 | True EPUB/PDF | 304 pages | 120/165 MB
The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life―and even invented real automated machines

Free Download Deirdre Loughridge, "Sounding Human: Music and Machines, 1740/2020 "
English | ISBN: 022683011X | 2024 | 250 pages | EPUB, PDF | 7 MB + 7 MB

Free Download Recent Advances in Industrial Machines and Mechanisms
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819942691 | 672 Pages | PDF (True) | 31 MB
This book presents select proceedings of the Conference on Industrial Problems on Machines and Mechanisms (IPRoMM 2022). It presents a comprehensive coverage of the recent developments in analysis, design and manufacturing of a range of modern and next-generation industrial machines, and solutions to mitigate common and emerging problems in their maintenance and operation. The topics covered include design, manufacturing and performance analysis of mechanical and mechatronic machine components and assemblies, machine dynamics including rotor dynamics, vehicle dynamics, and multi-body dynamics, robotics and automation, hydraulic and pneumatic systems and control, vibration engineering, tribology, condition monitoring, failure analysis, manufacturing systems and processes, reliability and quality engineering, thermo-fluid and combustion systems, aerospace systems, acoustics, automotive engineering, etc. The book discusses theoretical and practical developments in these fields which have direct industrial relevance. The book serves as a valuable reference for researchers and professionals interested in analysis, design, manufacturing, maintenance, and operation of industrial machinery.

Free Download Electrical Machines and Their Applications, 3rd Edition
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0367655012 | 433 Pages | PDF (True) | 25 MB
This book provides a thorough discussion of electrical machines. It starts by reviewing the basics of concepts needed to fully understand the machines, e.g., three-phase circuits and fundamentals of energy conversion, and continues to discuss transformers, induction machines, synchronous machines, dc machines, and other special machines and their dynamics. This natural progression creates a unifying theme and helps the reader appreciate how the same physical laws of energy conversion govern the operation and dynamics of different machine types. The text is sprinkled with ample examples to further solidify the discussed concepts. Several well-placed appendices make the book self-contained and even easier to follow.

Free Download Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology (Audiobook)
English | November 13, 2018 | ASIN: B07K7T9KS3 | M4B@64 kbps | 9h 24m | 265 MB
Author and Narrator: Adrienne Mayor
The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life – and even invented real automated machines
The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by Hephaestus, the Greek god of invention. More than 2,500 years ago, long before medieval automata, and centuries before technology made self-moving devices possible, Greek mythology was exploring ideas about creating artificial life – and grappling with still-unresolved ethical concerns about biotechne, "life through craft". In this compelling book, Adrienne Mayor tells the fascinating story of how ancient Greek, Roman, Indian, and Chinese myths envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices, and human enhancements – and how these visions relate to and reflect the ancient invention of real animated machines.

Free Download Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent, and Respectful AI by Reid Blackman, Stephen Bel Davies, Ascent Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: B0BFFZXYJT | Format: MP3 / 5 hours and 30 minutes + EPUB | 116 Mb
The promise of artificial intelligence is automated decision-making at scale, but that means AI also automates risk at scale. Are you prepared for that risk?
Already, many companies have suffered real damage when their algorithms led to discriminatory, privacy-invading, and even deadly outcomes. Self-driving cars have hit pedestrians; HR algorithms have precluded women from job searches; mortgage systems have denied loans to qualified minorities. And often the companies who deployed the AI couldn’t explain why the black box made the decision it did.
In Ethical Machines, Reid Blackman gives you all you need to understand AI ethics as a risk management challenge. He’ll help you build, procure, and deploy AI in a way that’s not only ethical but also safe in terms of your organization’s reputation, regulatory compliance, and legal standing-and do it at scale. And don’t worry-the book’s purpose is to get work done, not to ponder deep and existential questions about ethics and technology. Blackman’s clear and accessible writing helps make a complex and often misunderstood concept like ethics easy to grasp. Most importantly, Blackman makes ethics actionable by tackling the big three ethical risks with AI-bias, explainability, and privacy-and tells you what to do (and what not to do) to mitigate them.

Free Download Mike Healy, "Marx and Digital Machines: Alienation, Technology, Capitalism "
English | ISBN: 1912656795 | 2020 | 172 pages | PDF | 1440 KB
This book explores the fundamental contradiction at the heart of the digital environment: technology offers all manner of promises, yet habitually fails to deliver. This failure often arises from numerous problems: the proficiency of the technology or end-user, policy failure at various levels, or a combination of these. Solutions such as better technology and more effective end-user education are often put into place to solve these failures.

Free Download Argumentation Machines: New Frontiers in Argument and Computation by Chris Reed, Timothy J. Norman
English | PDF (True) | 2004 | 258 Pages | ISBN : 1402018118 | 28.9 MB
In the late 1990s, AI witnessed an increasing use of the term ‘argumentation’ within its bounds: in natural language processing, in user interface design, in logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning, in Al’s interface with the legal community, and in the newly emerging field of multi-agent systems. It seemed to me that many of these uses of argumentation were inspired by (of ten inspired) guesswork, and that a great majority of the AI community were unaware that there was a maturing, rich field of research in Argumentation Theory (and Critical Thinking and Informal Logic) that had been steadily re building a scholarly approach to the area over the previous twenty years or so. Argumentation Theory, on its side; was developing theories and approaches that many in the field felt could have a role more widely in research and soci ety, but were for the most part unaware that AI was one of the best candidates for such application.