No recent scientific enterprise has been so alluring terrifying and filled with extravagant
promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. How intelligent are the best of
today's AI programs? To what extent can we entrust them with decisions that affect our lives?
How human-like do we expect them to become and how soon do we need to worry about them
surpassing us in most if not all human endeavours? From leading AI researcher and
award-winning author Melanie Mitchell comes a knowledgeable and 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 requires such elusive human qualities in order
to be reliable trustworthy and beneficial. Artificial Intelligence- A Guide for Thinking
Humans provides readers with an accessible entertaining 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.
