EAN: 9780241333907

PELICAN BOOKS THE ROAD TO CONSCIOUS MACHINES ...

'A terrific book - essential reading for everyone seeking to make sense of Artificial
Intelligence' Professor Sir Adrian Smith  Director and Chief Executive of the Alan Turing
Institute In this myth-busting guide to AI past and present  one of the world's leading
researchers shows why our fears for the future are misplaced. The ultimate dream of AI is to
build machines that are like us: conscious and self-aware. While this remains a remote
possibility  rapid progress in AI is already transforming our world. Yet the public debate is
still largely centred on unlikely prospects  from sentient machines to dystopian robot
takeovers. In this lively and clear-headed guide  Michael Wooldridge challenges the prevailing
narrative  revealing how the hype distracts us from both the more immediate risks that this
technology poses - from algorithmic bias to fake news - and the true life-changing potential of
the field. The Road to Conscious Machines elucidates the discoveries of AI's greatest pioneers
from Alan Turing to Demis Hassabis  and what today's researchers actually think and do. 'Nobody
understands the past  the present  the promise and the peril of this new technology better than
Michael Wooldridge. The definitive account' Matt Ridley  author of The Rational Optimist
'Effortlessly readable. The perfect guide to the history and future of AI' Tom Chivers  author
of The AI Does Not Hate You

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