The program includes an introduction read by the author.

Simply no recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial cleverness. The award-winning writer Melanie Mitchell, a leading computer scientist, right now discloses its turbulent background and the latest surge of apparent successes, grand expectations, and emerging doubts that surround AI.

In Artificial Intelligence, Mitchell turns towards the most urgent questions concerning about Artificial Intelligence: HELPFUL INFORMATION for Thinking Humans AI today: How intelligent-really-are the best AI programs? How do they work? What can they actually do, and when perform they fail? How humanlike perform we anticipate them to become, and exactly how quickly do we have to be concerned about them surpassing us? On the way, she introduces the dominant ways of modern AI and machine learning, explaining cutting-edge AI programs, their human inventors, and the historic lines of believed that led to recent achievements. She meets with fellow specialists like Douglas Hofstadter, the cognitive scientist and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of the modern traditional Gödel, Escher, Bach, who explains why he’s “terrified” about the future of AI. She explores the profound disconnect between your hype as well as the real accomplishments in AI, offering a clear feeling of the actual field has accomplished and just how much further it has to go.

Interweaving stories on the subject of the science and the people behind it, Artificial Intelligence brims with clear-sighted, captivating, and approachable accounts of the very most interesting and provocative modern function in AI, flavored with Mitchell’s laughter and personal observations. This frank, exciting book will prove an indispensable guidebook to understanding today’s AI, its quest for “human-level” cleverness, and its influences on our futures.