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    Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
    Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
    Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
    Audiobook9 hours

    Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

    Written by Melanie Mitchell

    Narrated by Melanie Mitchell, Abby Craden and Tony Wolf

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateOct 15, 2019
    ISBN9781250243263
    Author

    Melanie Mitchell

     Melanie Mitchell is a native of Texas. With her husband Scott, Melanie has lived in Belgium and South Korea, as well as several cities in the U.S. She is widely traveled and able to bring a variety of settings, experiences and an understanding of different cultures into her work. She has been an RN for many years and currently teaches nursing in the Houston area. While she has written extensively, she is just starting her ‘new’ career writing romantic suspense

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    • 5/5
      I thought Mitchell did a great job presenting a short history of the AI field and a great overview of its current state including limitations and some predictions about the future of AI. Very practical and accessible!

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Nice introduction, a bit more technical than most in a good way.
      I think she underrates underestimates the risk of artificial general intelligence.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      AI is not what you think. An expert puts her finger on the central issue: machines don’t “understand” what they are doing. This applies as much to WATSON as it applies to a baseball bat.