Thinking machines : the inside story of artificial intelligence and our race to build the future / Luke Dormehl.
By: Dormehl, Luke [author.]
.Publisher: London : WH Allen, 2016Description: x, 278 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780753556740.Subject(s): Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects | Robots | Labour supply -- Effect of automation on | Creative ability | Machine learning | Technology and civilizationDDC classification: 303.4834 Summary: "2016 marks the 60-year anniversary of the phrase ‘Artificial Intelligence’ and in this fascinating book, Luke Dormehl charts the weird and wonderful journey of one of mankind’s greatest projects, the creation of Thinking Machines. This is a story of what it means to be human in the face of accelerating machine intelligence. It’s about trying to make computers that are smarter than we are, and what happens when it goes wrong. About what creativity means when all knowledge is data that can be stored on microchips. Or about what happens when machines can learn from their mistakes much faster than humans can. And above all, it’s about the dazzling future around the corner, how our lives might just change forever, and whether you and I aren’t just thinking machines of a sort as well."-- Provided by publisher.
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"2016 marks the 60-year anniversary of the phrase ‘Artificial Intelligence’ and in this fascinating book, Luke Dormehl charts the weird and wonderful journey of one of mankind’s greatest projects, the creation of Thinking Machines. This is a story of what it means to be human in the face of accelerating machine intelligence. It’s about trying to make computers that are smarter than we are, and what happens when it goes wrong. About what creativity means when all knowledge is data that can be stored on microchips. Or about what happens when machines can learn from their mistakes much faster than humans can. And above all, it’s about the dazzling future around the corner, how our lives might just change forever, and whether you and I aren’t just thinking machines of a sort as well."-- Provided by publisher.