Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future

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Luke Dormehl

Thinking Machines

The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future

Luke Dormehl

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W H Allen
18 August 2016

Artificial intelligence

Tech billionaires, reclusive scientists, dancing vacuum cleaners, voices beyond the grave - how a dream from the 1950s became our modern, super-networked world.

2016 marks the 60-year anniversary of the phrase 'Artificial Intelligence' and in this fascinating book, Luke Dormehl charts the weird and wonderful journey of one of mankind's greatest projects, the creation of Thinking Machines.

This is a story of how what it means to be human in the face of accelerating machine intelligence.

It's about trying to make computers that are smarter than we are, and what happens when it goes wrong.

About what creativity means when all knowledge is data that can be stored on microchips.

Or about what happens when machines can learn from their mistakes much faster than humans can.

And above all, it's about the dazzling future around the corner, how our lives might just change forever, and whether you and I aren't just thinking machines of a sort as well.

By: Luke Dormehl
Imprint: W H Allen
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 284g
ISBN: 9780753556740
ISBN 10: 075355674X
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 18 August 2016
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Luke Dormehl is a British technology writer and public speaker and author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula- How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems... And Create More. He has written for Wired, The Guardian, Fast Company, The Sunday Times and others, as well as directing a range of documentaries for UK television.

Reviews for Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future

makes a convincing, often disturbing, but always-entertaining case that that we're in for a wild ride. * Kirkus Reviews * If you're interested in learning more about our robotic soon-to-be overlords, your best bet is THINKING MACHINES * The Spectator * AI is about to change our world profoundly. This book tells you everything you need to know. * Leander Kahney, author of Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products * A gifted storyteller who interweaves the personal stories with the broad history of artificial intelligence -- Ray Kurzweil * New York Times *