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Thinking Machines
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Thinking Machines

The Quest for Artificial Intelligence – and Where It’s Taking Us Next

Perigee, 2017 подробнее...


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Scientific
  • Eye Opening
  • Background

Recommendation

In his engaging overview of artificial intelligence (AI), tech journalist Luke Dormehl lucidly sets out the origins of AI, probes its applications and speculates with relish about its wider or wilder potential – for good, ill or some incomprehensible moral hinterland. “Narrow AI” pervades modern life – in wearable devices, smartphones, smart homes, translation apps, digital assistants, and more – while a “wide AI” looms. This presages great benefit – or maybe a “Technological Singularity” that will displace humankind from cognitive dominance.

Take-Aways

  • The progress of artificial intelligence (AI) suggests a fast-approaching era of machines whose operation humankind will struggle to distinguish from the concept of “thinking.”
  • Directly programmed, rule-based “symbolic” methods led AI’s early development.   
  • Neural networks, inspired by the human brain, overturned the symbolic AI paradigm and led to deep-learning systems such as Google’s DeepMind. 

About the Author

United Kingdom-based journalist Luke Dormehl‘s previous books include The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems…and Create More.


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