'After reading Mitchell's guide you'll know what you don't know and what other people don't
know even though they claim to know it. And that's invaluable'' The New York Times A leading
computer scientist brings human sense to the AI bubble No recent scientific enterprise has been
so alluring terrifying and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as
artificial intelligence. Writing with clarity and passion leading AI researcher Melanie
Mitchell offers a captivating account of modern-day artificial intelligence. Flavoured with
personal stories and a twist of humour Artificial Intelligence illuminates the workings of
machines that mimic human learning perception language creativity and common sense. Weaving
together advances in AI with cognitive science and philosophy Mitchell probes the extent to
which today's 'smart' machines can actually think or understand and whether AI even requires
such elusive human qualities at all. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
provides readers with an accessible and clear-eyed view of the AI landscape what the field has
actually accomplished how much further it has to go and what it means for all of our futures.
