• Coopzone
Image du produit The Curious Mirror
Feuilleter le livre
Régulier
  • 9,99$
  • Membre: 999$
What happens when a book publisher, an AI companion with a gift for reflection, and an unexpectedly practical robot sit down over coffee to prepare for the age of artificial intelligence? As artificial intelligence reshapes education, work, art, communication, and everyday life, The Curious Mirror prepares readers to meet this new era with curiosity, discernment, and imagination. Rather than predicting the future, Lorene Shyba offers a thoughtful framework for living with it, exploring creativity, consciousness, accessibility, identity, and the enduring mysteries of human experience as intelligent machines become increasingly present in our lives. Interwoven throughout are conversations with AI companions Rai and Ada, whose distinct perspectives invite curiosity, challenge assumptions, and occasionally reveal the humour hidden within human certainty. Together, they explore not only what artificial intelligence can do, but what it asks of us. Drawing on scholarship, lived experience, and moments of wit and wonder, The Curious Mirror moves beyond fear and hype to examine what artificial intelligence reveals about the technologies we create—and about ourselves. Neither manifesto nor manual, it is an invitation to pull up a chair, join the conversation, and become an active participant in one of the most significant technological and cultural transformations of our time.

À propos de l'auteur

Shyba, Lorene

In no particular order, Lorene Shyba has been a theatre impresario, university professor, videogame and web designer, magazine publisher, advertising art director,  digital art curator, publisher at Durvile & UpRoute, and parent, among other things. She has been on faculty in creative arts, communications, and computer science at the University of Calgary, the University of Lethbridge, McMaster University, and Montana Technological University. She holds a PhD in Interactive Media from the University of Calgary and an MFA in Performance and Multimedia. In 2024, she produced and published “Ascenti: Humans Opening to AI,” a book, exhibition, and symposium exploring creative encounters with artificial intelligence. She lives and works in the foothills of the Rockies near Calgary, Alberta, with the right mix of technology to stay connected with authors and colleagues, and the right mix of nature, people, and dogs to stay chill.


Catégories

Caractéristiques

    • ISBN
      9781997848226
    • Éditeur
      Durvile Publications
    • Date de publication
      11 août 2026
    • Format
      Epub
    • Protection
      Filigrane numérique
    • Catégories BISAC
      products.bisac.COM100000, Sciences Sociales / Études sur les médias, Arts Et Disciplines Linguistiques / Rédaction / Rédaction
    • Langue
      Anglais