Ex Machina (2004-) #6

Ex Machina (2004-) #6 PDF Author: Brian K. Vaughan
Publisher: Vertigo
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
As flashbacks reveal the role the National Security Agency played in the career of the super-heroic Great Machine, Mayor Mitchell Hundred makes what might be the most controversial decision in the history of New York City politics! Plus, what's lurking in the subway tunnels beneath Manhattan, and how is it connected to Mayor Hundred?

Ex Machina

Ex Machina PDF Author: Brian K. Vaughan
Publisher: Titan Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780857682727
Category : Hundred, Mitchell (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
In this last deluxe EX MACHINA hardcover, Mayor Mitchell Hundred descends into the NYC sewers to learn why he was given the strange powers that helped him become the heroic Great Machine while a powerful new foe reveals a terrifying plan that's been in the works since the series began.

Ex Machina Book One

Ex Machina Book One PDF Author: Brian K. Vaughan
Publisher: DC
ISBN: 1401249833
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 277

Book Description
Award-winning writer Brian K. Vaughan (PRIDE OF BAGHDAD, Y: THE LAST MAN) uniquely combines big city politics and superheroes in this criticially acclaimed series. Set in our modern-day world, EX MACHINA tells the story of civil engineer Mitchell Hundred, who becomes America's first living, breathing super-hero after a strange accident gives him the power to communicate with machines. Eventually Mitchell tires of risking his life merely to maintain the status quo, retires from masked crime fighting and runs for mayor of New York City, winning by a landslide after the events of 9/11. Illustrated by Tony Harris, EX MACHINA BOOK ONE is the first chapter of one of the finest series ever from Vertigo. Collects issues #1-11.

Deus Ex Machina Sapiens

Deus Ex Machina Sapiens PDF Author: David Ellis
Publisher: Elysian Detroit
ISBN: 0615401368
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 205

Book Description
Watson's win on Jeopardy came as no surprise to those who had read Deus ex Machina sapiens. It was written largely during the 1990s, around the time that another IBM supercomputer--Deep Blue--was trouncing world chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. The book has since been updated on a few points of detail but its primary message remains intact: the Machine is rapidly evolving as Man's rival if not replacement for the job of Steward of the Earth. Building upon the work of some of the world's greatest scientists, philosophers, and religious thinkers, and drawing particularly from developments in the computing and cognitive sciences--particularly, the field of artificial intelligence, or AI--the book reveals the evolutionary emergence of a machine that is not just intelligent but also self-conscious, emotional, and free-willed. In the 1980s and '90s you used to hear grandiose claims about AI. Machines would soon surpass humans in intelligence, it was claimed by some. The Japanese government spent a billion dollars on one project to make it happen. Well, it didn't happen, but that didn't stop the development of intelligence in machines. AI research simply went underground, and has ever since been quietly incorporated into the "ordinary" programs we use every day, without fanfare, without hype. There is still no machine that rivals Homo sapiens in overall intelligence, but today there are machines that far exceed human intellectual capacity in specific domains, from games to engineering to art, and the number of domains is growing exponentially big and exponentially fast. The disappearance of AI from front stage was good insofar as it allowed machines to develop in the right way; that is, through an evolutionary process, which is the only way for something of such complexity to develop. But it was bad insofar as we lost sight of the development of the intelligent machine. Deus brings Machina sapiens back to front stage, where it belongs. After describing the evolutionary development of intelligence in machines it goes on to describe the emotional, intellectual, and ethical attributes of what is no less than an emergent new life form. It asks the Big Question that can only be asked if you accept the very possibility of the new life form: Will it be serpent or savior? The question is answered in the book's title, which is intended to mean "God Emerging From the Intelligent Machine." The author confesses to having never studied Latin and to have concocted the title from two known Latin phrases: "Deus ex Machina" and "Homo sapiens." The concoction could be grammatically incorrect. The author would be pleased to be corrected.

Ex Machina

Ex Machina PDF Author: Alex Garland
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571325351
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description
Caleb, a 24 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl. EX MACHINA is an intense psychological thriller, played out in a love triangle. It explores big ideas about the nature of consciousness, emotion, sexuality, truth and lies.

A Deus ex Machina Revisited

A Deus ex Machina Revisited PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047409507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389

Book Description
This volume of essays provides a fresh and innovative look at colonial trade and its impact on economic development in Europe. It is unique in its coverage of countries that are usually ignored, such as Denmark and Sweden, while also including in its chronology more than the 18th century alone.

Ex Machina

Ex Machina PDF Author: Christopher L. Bennett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471105946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
Following the events of Star Trek: The Motion Picture the captain and crew of the USS Enterprise found themselves haunted by their extraordinary encounter with the vast artificial intelligence of V'Ger, and by the sacrifice and ascension of their friend and shipmate, Willard Decker. As James T. Kirk, Spock and Leonard McCoy attempt to cope with the personal fallout of their ordeal, a chapter from their mutual past is reopened, raising troubling new questions about the relationship of God, man and A.I. On the recently settled world of Daran IV, the former refugees of the Fabrini worldship Yonada are divided by conflicting ideologies, some clinging to their theocratic past while others envision a future governed by reason alone. Years ago the officers of the Enterprise helped overthrow the Oracle, the machine-god that controlled Yonada. Now confronting the consequences of those actions, together with echoes of their strange encounter with V'Ger, Kirk, Spock and McCoy face choices which will decide the fate of a civilization - and which may change them forever.

Ex Machina

Ex Machina PDF Author: Brian K. Vaughan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781779525635
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Science fiction thrills collide with explosive political drama in this critically acclaimed tale from renowned writer Brian K. Vaughan and legendary artist Tony Harris--assembled in a single hardcover volume! When a strange accident gives Mitchell Hundred the ability to control machinery, he uses his newfound powers to become the world's first superhero. But the thrill of risking his life simply to help maintain the status quo eventually wears thin, leading Mitch to retire from masked crime-fighting in order to run for mayor of New York City. And that's when the real weirdness begins! Collects the Eisner Award-winning series Ex Machina #1-50 and Ex Machina Special #1-4.

Ex Machina

Ex Machina PDF Author: Jim Clark
Publisher: Titan Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781848564527
Category : Heroes
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
As New York City prepares to host the Republican National Convention - much to the chagrin of its residents - Mayor and former superhero Mitchell Hundred is forced to investigate a new, costumed player - one who seems intent on derailing the convention.

Ex Machina (2004-) #23

Ex Machina (2004-) #23 PDF Author: Brian K. Vaughan
Publisher: Vertigo
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
In the past, the super-heroic Great Machine pursues a drug dealer in a high-speed chase, while in the present, Mayor Mitchell Hundred struggles with crime and punishment in the arena of New York's marijuana laws. Part 3 of the 4-part "Smoke Smoke."