Artificial intelligence : a guide for thinking humans /

No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. An award-winning author and leading computer scientist reveals its turbulent history and the recent surge of successes, grand hopes, and emergi...

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Main Authors: Mitchell, Melanie Computer scientist
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2019.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
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Summary: No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. An award-winning author and leading computer scientist reveals its turbulent history and the recent surge of successes, grand hopes, and emerging fears that surround AI.
Carrier Form: 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780374257835 (hardback) :
0374257833 (hardback)
Index Number: Q335
CLC: TP18
Call Number: TP18/M682-1
Contents: Background -- Looking and seeing -- Learning to play -- Artificial intelligence meets natural language -- The barrier of meaning.