📖 A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
A substantive book on A.I. that won't make you feel like a moron
If you’re getting caught up in the A.I. whoopla but secretly feel you may not know as much as you should, you’re not alone. Based on my own observations 2 in 3 folk talking about A.I. really don’t know as much about the topic as they purport yet feel compelled to participate (I admit I am often one of them). Making matters worse, when one cracks the subject open it can be dauntingly complex. Lucky for your Micheal Wooldridge wrote this fantastic and engaging book to help resolve this very challenge.
Michael Wooldridge is a professor of Computer Science at Oxford University. Don’t let that title scare you away. He is simultaneously informative and interesting in this book. Here’s a video teaser if you would like a sample:
The thing I loved about reading this book was its sober and honest approach to the category whether that be the author’s talent for translating complex ideas into understandable metaphors or his eagerness to take on abstract topics (spoiler alert, he is not a big believer in the idea we will ever achieve Artificial General Intelligence). He does not get into the abstract math or the nuances of various models but also does not treat the reader as a dullard. You genuinely feel better and smarter on the topic generally after reading it. If you’re looking for how to write a better prompt, you may want to look elsewhere. If you’re looking to raise your A.I. I.Q. broadly, this book will not disappoint.
Book description is as follows accompanied by Amazon and Audible links.
Description:
“From Oxford's leading AI researcher comes a fun and accessible tour through the history and future of one of the most cutting edge and misunderstood field in science: artificial intelligence
The somewhat ill-defined long-term aim of AI is to build machines that are conscious, self-aware, and sentient; machines capable of the kind of intelligent autonomous action that currently only people are capable of. As an AI researcher with 25 years of experience, professor Mike Wooldridge has learned to be obsessively cautious about such claims, while still promoting an intense optimism about the future of the field. There have been genuine scientific breakthroughs that have made AI systems possible in the past decade that the founders of the field would have hailed as miraculous. Driverless cars and automated translation tools are just two examples of AI technologies that have become a practical, everyday reality in the past few years, and which will have a huge impact on our world.
While the dream of conscious machines remains, Professor Wooldridge believes, a distant prospect, the floodgates for AI have opened. Wooldridge's A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence is an exciting romp through the history of this groundbreaking field - a one-stop-shop for AI's past, present, and world-changing future.”
Enjoy!