Ronald J. Brachman is Director of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech in New York City and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. During a long career in industry, he held leadership positions at Bell Labs, Yahoo, and DARPA. Hector J. Levesque is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Common Sense, the Turing Test, and the Quest for Real AI (MIT Press), and other books.
"""Machines Like Us, for those who want to better understand a key part of intelligence we still haven’t been able to clarify and build for artificial intelligence, is an excellent overview.” —Forbes ""Machines Like Us provides a fresh perspective on potential areas of research, courtesy of two scientists who have been deeply involved in artificial intelligence since the 1970s."" —Ben Dickson, TechTalks “In Machines like Us, Brachman and Levesque imagine a world where proactive explainability and trust are at the forefront of any AI system, arguing that programming commonsense knowledge and reasoning into AI is imperative. Without the ability to react to the unexpected, AI systems can not only prove futile in critical moments but also present major risks to human safety.” —TechTarget"