THE #2 TIMES BESTSELLER'Artificial intelligence is going to have a massive impact on everyone's
lives... an accessible and sensible read that helps demystify AI' Deborah Meaden entrepreneur
and star of Dragon's Den'Nigel Toon is a visionary leader in the field of artificial
intelligence... a must-read' Marc Tremblay Distinguished Engineer MicrosoftThose who
understand how AI thinks are about to win big. We are used to thinking of computers as being a
step up from calculators - very good at storing information and maybe even at playing a
logical game like chess. But up to now they haven't been able to think in ways that are
intuitive or respond to questions as a human might. All that has changed dramatically in the
past few years. Our search engines are becoming answer engines. Artificial intelligence is
already revolutionising sectors from education to healthcare to the creative arts. But how does
an AI understand sentiment or context? How does it play and win games that have an almost
infinite number of moves? And how can we work with AI to produce insights and innovations that
are beyond human capacity from writing code in an instant to unfolding the elaborate 3D
puzzles of proteins?We stand at the brink of a historic change that will disrupt society and at
the same time create enormous opportunities for those who understand how AI thinks. Nigel Toon
shows how we train AI to train itself so that it can paint images that have never existed
before or converse in any language. In doing so he reveals the strange and fascinating ways
that humans think too as we learn how to live in a world shared by machine intelligences of
our own creation.
