Artificial Intelligence
A Guide for Thinking Humans
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Abby Craden
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Melanie Mitchell
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Tony Wolf
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By:
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Melanie Mitchell
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This program includes an introduction read by the author.
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 its turbulent history and the recent surge of apparent successes, grand hopes, and emerging fears that surround AI.
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 methods of modern AI and machine learning, describing cutting-edge AI programs, their human inventors, and the historical lines of thought that led to recent achievements. She meets with fellow experts like Douglas Hofstadter, the cognitive scientist and Pulitzer Prize - winning author of the modern classic Gödel, 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 farther it has to go.
Interweaving stories about the science and the people behind it, Artificial Intelligence brims with clear-sighted, captivating, and approachable accounts of the most interesting and provocative modern work in AI, flavored with Mitchell’s humor and personal observations. This frank, lively book will prove an indispensable guide to understanding today’s AI, its quest for “human-level” intelligence, and its impacts on all of our futures.
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- BryanP
- 06-01-22
Fascinating insight into AI
This book provides an introduction to the ability of human intelligence and compares it with the difficulties AI has to imitate it. As you might expect, much of the content is complex but it left me with a clearer general understanding of the subject. The conclusion of the book that the threat of AI at present is nothing compared to that of the artificial stupidity currently available is revealing.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-06-23
A scientific review of the state of AI
This book gives a review of many of the currently popular algorithms underpinning the advances in AI that are highly hyped in a manner that is accessible to a lay person. It then goes on to explain the limitations of these algorithms. I highly recommend this book!
As for the narrator, excellent performance as always!
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- Ben Bevan
- 25-08-24
Reassuring and down to Earth
Its nice to encounter a piece which runs through the topic of A.I in such a balanced way. Too often I've come across news media which hype the very fictional dangers or benefits of A.I to generate clicks, or the various developers/researchers who do the same to attract investment. As someone who sees this a lot in his own field, its important we escape the human addiction to over-exaggeration and start to really engage, critically with reality. This book succeeds at doing this.
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- Paul Masters
- 16-08-20
Superb
I highly recommend his book. It provides a great overview of AI and the challenges the field faces.
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- Ravenna
- 10-08-23
Great explanation of AI today
Myth busts the hype of AI with great examples concluding why we should fear AI, not for its intelligence but for it’s stupidity, brilliant
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- Dec
- 25-02-23
Great overview
This is the best introduction and overview on the topic of ai that I have encountered.
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-03-22
Excellent content, narration a bit robotic
Puns aside, it's a great introduction and very accessible. Looking forward to reading some of the books the narrator mentioned as being her inspiration
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- Benjamin Colchester
- 17-12-20
A perfect introduction to AI
I cannot recommend this book enough. Melanie Mitchell takes you on a beautifully choreographed journey through the field of AI from its inception to the present day. A must read for anyone with a desire to understand AI and its implications for the future.
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- Milan Topalov
- 11-01-20
Ultimate overview of the state of AI in 2019
This was a pure joy to listen. Great writing, great reading. Clearly explained concepts, lots of examples, engaging, up to date. No word was wasted.
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- DD
- 17-12-20
easy read
book was good and informative on general knowledge of AI. You will not learn to program AI programs by reading this book.
narrator was brilliant, pleasant voice
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