Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence

「人工智慧 (Artificial Intelligence, AI) 」 一詞，最早可追溯至20世紀中英國數學家艾倫．圖靈發表的論文Computing Machinery and Intelligence。隨著時間推移，硬體與軟體技術的迅速進步讓電腦運算速度大幅提升、成本顯著下降，並且配合演算法領域的卓越研究成果，人工智慧領域不再是遙不可及的夢想。21世紀初，AlphaGo達到可以對決頂尖圍棋高手的程度，到了2022年，OpenAI正式推出ChatGPT，更讓人工智慧真正普及到大眾生活。生成式AI在各行各業專業領域中帶來重大變革，本書能幫助您突破生成式AI的工具性操作，深入了解其背後的技術、應用與影響力。全書共有七個章節，內容涵蓋生成式AI的底層邏輯、實務操作、企業管理策略等三個面向。第一到三章聚焦於生成式AI的底層邏輯，會依序介紹AI先備知識、經典模型以及生成式AI 核心架構：Transformer，即便您沒有資訊背景也能夠讀懂。第四到六章聚焦於生成式AI的實務操作，介紹提示工程(Prompt Engineering)，教您如何讓生成式AI產出高品質的回應，並手把手地帶您使用ChatGPT API 實作兩個小專案：檢索增強生成(RAG)以及網站智能客服。第七章聚焦於生成式AI的企業管理策略，針對企業最迫切關注的議題：如何導入生成式AI，提出淺見與看法。

The riveting investigative account of Nvidia, the tech company that has exploded in value for its artificial intelligence computing hardware, and Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s charismatic, uncompromising CEO In March 2024, following the revelation that ChatGPT had trained on Nvidia’s microchips, and twenty-one years after its founding in a Denny’s restaurant, Nvidia became the third most-valuable corporation on Earth. In The Thinking Machine, acclaimed journalist Stephen Witt recounts the unlikely story of how a manufacturer of video game components shocked Silicon Valley by establishing a monopoly on AI hardware, and in the process re-invented the computer. Essential to Nvidia’s meteoric success is its visionary CEO Jensen Huang, who more than a decade ago, on the basis of a few promising scientific results, bet his entire company on AI. Through unprecedented access to Huang, his friends, his investors, and his employees, Witt documents for the first time the company’s epic rise and its ic

本書從元宇宙的起源和現實應用場景出發，基於元宇宙的“BIGCHINA”技術框架，為讀者依次揭開元宇宙背後八大硬科技—區塊鏈(Blockchain)技術、交互(Interactivity)技術、通信技術(Communication Technology，5G、6G)、雲和邊緣計算(Cloud and Edge Computing)技術、高性能計算和量子計算(High-Performance Computing and Quantum Computing)技術、物聯網和機器人(IoT and Robotics)技術、網絡(Network)技術、人工智能(Artificial Intelligence)技術的神秘面紗。本書將上述八大支撐技術與元宇宙中的諸多實際和潛在應用相結合，生動地繪製出一幅元宇宙的“技術圖譜”，為想要瞭解元宇宙及其背後核心技術的讀者提供有趣的科普閱讀體驗。此外，本書在一定程度上突破了從單一技術視域分析元宇宙的局限，對讀者瞭解當前元宇宙技術整體發展現狀和未來趨勢有一定的借鑒意義。