Artificial Intelligence, Melanie Mitchell
Artificial Intelligence, Melanie Mitchell
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Artificial Intelligence
A Guide for Thinking Humans

Author: Melanie Mitchell

Narrator: Abby Craden, Melanie Mitchell, Tony Wolf

Unabridged: 9 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/15/2019

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. The award-winning author Melanie Mitchell, a leading computer scientist, now reveals its turbulent history and the recent surge of apparent successes, grand hopes, and emerging fears that surround AI.

In Artificial Intelligence, Mitchell turns to the most urgent questions concerning AI today: How intelligent—really—are the best AI programs? How do they work? What can they actually do, and when do they fail? How humanlike do we expect them to become, and how soon do we need to worry about them surpassing us? Along the way, she introduces the dominant methods of modern AI and machine learning, describing cutting-edge AI programs, their human inventors, and the historical lines of thought that led to recent achievements. She meets with fellow experts like Douglas Hofstadter, the cognitive scientist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the modern classic Gödel, Escher, Bach, who explains why he is “terrified” about the future of AI. She explores the profound disconnect between the hype and the actual achievements in AI, providing a clear sense of what the field has accomplished and how much farther it has to go.

Interweaving stories about the science and the people behind it, Artificial Intelligence brims with clear-sighted, captivating, and approachable accounts of the most interesting and provocative modern work in AI, flavored with Mitchell’s humor and personal observations. This frank, lively book will prove an indispensable guide to understanding today’s AI, its quest for “human-level” intelligence, and its impacts on all of our futures.

About Melanie Mitchell

Melanie Mitchell has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Michigan, where she studied with the cognitive scientist and writer Douglas Hofstadter; together, they created the Copycat program, which makes creative analogies in an idealized world. The author or editor of several books (such as Complexity: A Guided Tour) and numerous scholarly papers, Mitchell is currently professor of computer science at Portland State University and external professor at the Santa Fe Institute.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Brian

As Melanie Mitchell makes plain, humans have limitations in their visual abilities, typified by optical illusions, but artificial intelligence (AI) struggles at a much deeper level with recognising what's going on in images. Similarly in some ways, the visual appearance of this book misleads. It's w......more

Goodreads review by Steve

This book should be widely read, especially by those with a technological or philosophical interest in artificial intelligence, which should be most people. It provides a succinct history of this ambitious thought-provoking field, and a beautiful overview of the current state of the art. It should b......more

Goodreads review by Ali

3.5 یکم زیادی ژورنالیستی کتاب قبلی که از ملانی میشل خونده بودم (پیچیدگی) باعث شد بیام سراغ این کتاب ولی متاسفانه انتظاراتم برآورده نشد. اوایل کتاب خوب شروع میشه ولی در ادامه، چون از ورود به مسائل فنی همش طفره می‌ره و میخواد ساده و محبوب همه دلها بمونه(!)، درگیر تکرار و مسائل سطحی می‌شه و خواننده رو ن......more

Dr. Mitchell, I salute you. This is a primer that actually does its job. In a field that tends to Sarah Connorish hysteria or I-am-become-Goddish euphoria, she finds a middle way. She also manages to explain some of the nuts and bolts of how AI actually works. She does so in an intuitive, conceptual......more

Goodreads review by Marta

A realistic overview of the AI field, what it has accomplish so far and the long road ahead. Good for any level of expertise to get an overall idea of the techniques and specially their limits, without any of the hype that surrounds this field. There’s still a lot of work to do, AI isn’t going to ta......more