Binding: Paperback
Description: After reading Mitchell's guide you ll know what you don t know and what other people don t know even though they claim to know it. And that's invaluable." The New York Times A leading computer scientist brings human sense to the AI bubble No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring terrifying and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. The award - winning author Melanie Mitchell a leading computer scientist now reveals AI's turbulent history and the recent spate of apparent successes grand hopes and emerging fears surrounding it. In Artificial Intelligence Mitchell turns to the most urgent questions concerning AI today: How intelligent really are the best AI programs? How do they work? What can they actually do and when do they fail? How humanlike do we expect them to become and how soon do we need to worry about them surpassing us? Along the way she introduces the dominant models of modern AI and machine learning describing cutting - edge AI programs their human inventors and the historical lines of thought underpinning recent achievements. She meets with fellow experts such as Douglas Hofstadter the cognitive scientist and Pulitzer Prize winning author of the modern classic G del Escher Bach who explains why he is terrified about the future of AI. She explores the profound disconnect between the hype and the actual achievements in AI providing a clear sense of what the field has accomplished and how much further it has to go. Interweaving stories about the science of AI and the people behind it Artificial Intelligence brims with clear - sighted captivating and accessible accounts of the most interesting and provocative modern work in the field flavored with Mitchell's humor and personal observations. This frank lively book is an indispensable guide to understanding today's AI its quest for human - level intelligence and its impact on the future for us all.
Title: Artificial Intelligence A Guide For Thinking Humans
Author(s): Mitchell Melanie
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250758040
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/17/2020
Category: Artificial Intelligence