Ghosts in the Machine

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The Cultural Journey of AI

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

719 kr

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A fascinating exploration of how our understanding of artificial intelligence has evolved across centuries as depicted through the stories and media we create.Humans have always dreamed of creating intelligent life. From the earliest legends of Talos to the droids of Star Wars, artificial beings stalk our culture. Today, we routinely interact with computers, and AI is a buzzword that dominates headlines and raises record-breaking Silicon Valley investment. As the power and influence of machines continue to grow, it’s time to examine our relationship with computers and machine life based on 3,000 years of stories.Ghosts In the Machine: The Cultural Journey of AI explores humanity’s complex relationship with artificial intelligence through the lens of our cultural imagination. From ancient myths of automata to today’s disruptive technologies, this book traces AI’s evolution in our collective consciousness. The narrative weaves through centuries of literature, film, and philosophical thought, examining what people believe about the machines that will assist—or perhaps replace—them. Organized historically, it explores how Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, and contemporary works like The Matrix and Black Mirror have shaped our hopes and fears about machine intelligence, even as we embrace the likes of ChatGPT in the workplace.The book delves into pivotal moments in AI’s cultural journey, from Jonathan Swift’s prescient satire of knowledge-generating machines to the ground-breaking work of Alan Turing and the singularity as described by Vernor Vinge. It explores how science fiction has reflected and influenced real-world AI development and how our cultural depictions align with current technological trends or diverge from them. What do these stories reveal about human nature, our aspirations, and our anxieties? As we stand on the brink of an AI revolution, Kelly Vero and Dave Bradley critically examine where we’ve been through the lens of prose, poetry, philosophy, and film and invite readers to contemplate the possibilities and challenges that lie ahead. Blending cultural analysis, literary criticism, and technological insight, Ghosts in the Machine is a fascinating read for anyone curious about the interplay between technology and culture.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-09
Mått140 x 216 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798216370666

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Kelly Vero has worked in video games and technology for 30 years, from programming to senior management, working on titles including Tomb Raider, Halo series, Transformers series, and Subway Surfers. Additionally, she has worked for 10 years in blockchain/NFT/crypto. She is actively developing the metaverse for clients worldwide (she is the first female tech lead on a children’s metaverse). Vero has been an international keynote speaker and leading gamification and metaverse thought leader, led gamification of femtech, fashion, and digital transformation projects (LVMH, NAK3D, Massican), is regularly featured in tech lists and future lists (100 Women of the Future, Forbes), is an award-winning educator (Star Awards for Innovation 2009), and an award-nominated and best-selling author whose nonfiction works include the forthcoming Breaking Through Bytes: Women Shaping the Digital World, and From Pixels to Portals: How Video Games Made the Metaverse. Vero is a regular TV and radio pundit, podcaster, and presenter (MTV, BBC and more) and the creator of the first NFT standard for trading.Dave Bradley has worked in the media for nearly 30 years as a magazine and online journalist, writer, editor, and event host and as a senior manager and consultant. He has written and edited newsstand publications including PC Format, Planet PC, Microsoft Windows: The Official Magazine, SFX, Total Film, Comic Heroes, and more, and has written and published for online publications, including GamesRadar+, Pocket Gamer, PC Games Insider, Crime Fiction Lover, and more. Bradley is also an experienced commentator on video games, home computing, technology, science fiction, literature, film and TV sectors as well as a regular host at conferences and ‘fireside chat’ live interviewer, especially about AI and mobile games. He is a contributor to DK Eyewitness’ The Screen Traveller’s Guide and an occasional short fiction author (e.g., Best of British Science Fiction 2018).

Introduction Chapter 1: Wired Gods and Bronze GolemsChapter 2: Lucian in the Sky with CyborgsChapter 3: Swift Code: Satire, Science & the Engine of WTFChapter 4: It’s Alive! But It Was Never BornChapter 5: Steam Dreams and Metal NightmaresChapter 6: Robopop: Dance Moves for Tin MenChapter 7: Ghosts in the AlgorithmChapter 8: Projecting Ghosts: AI on the Silver ScreenChapter 9: Built to Serve, Wired to RebelChapter 10: Synthetic Dreams, Channel ZeroChapter 11: Press X to Pray: Divine Logic in Digital WorldsChapter 12: I Contain Multitudes.exeNotesIndexAbout the Author