How Smart Machines Think, Sean Gerrish
How Smart Machines Think, Sean Gerrish
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How Smart Machines Think

Author: Sean Gerrish, Kevin Scott

Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Unabridged: 9 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/24/2018


Synopsis

The future is here: Self-driving cars are on the streets, an algorithm gives you movie and TV recommendations, IBM's Watson triumphed on Jeopardy over puny human brains, computer programs can be trained to play Atari games. But how do all these things work? In this book, Sean Gerrish offers an engaging and accessible overview of the breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and machine learning that have made today's machines so smart. Gerrish outlines some of the key ideas that enable intelligent machines to perceive and interact with the world. He describes the software architecture that allows self-driving cars to stay on the road and to navigate crowded urban environments; the million-dollar Netflix competition for a better recommendation engine; and how programmers trained computers to perform certain behaviors by offering them treats, as if they were training a dog. He explains how artificial neural networks enable computers to perceive the world—and to play Atari video games better than humans. Gerrish weaves the stories behind these breakthroughs into the narrative, introducing listeners to many of the researchers involved, and keeping technical details to a minimum. Science and technology buffs will find this book an essential guide to a future in which machines can outsmart people.

About Sean Gerrish

Sean Gerrish is a software engineer and machine learning geek. He has worked as an engineer at Teza Technologies and as an engineering manager for machine learning and data science teams at Google. He holds a PhD in machine learning from Princeton University.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Atila

Um review muito informativo sobre algoritmos, inteligência artificial e computação aplicada a várias situações. O Sean Gerrish trabalha com isso no Google hoje em dia e vai pegando vários exemplos onde IA foi aplicada como algoritmos de recomendação, Deep Mind e o jogo de Go, o desenvolvimento de ca......more

Goodreads review by Brian

While it will become apparent I think this book should have been titled 'How Dumb Machines Think', it was a remarkably enjoyable insight into how the well publicised AI successes - self-driving cars, image and face recognition, IBM's Jeopardy! playing Watson, along with game playing AIs in chess, Go......more

Goodreads review by Jay

I found “How Smart Machines Think” to cover the same ground as many articles in magazines such as Wired and Fast Business, but with more in-depth examples. In fact, after I finished the book I started reading an article by Clive Thompson in Wired (12/18) who also used some of the same examples to ma......more

Goodreads review by Bryce

This book is certainly as described in the sense that someone without and programming experience could read and understand it. The reason I am giving it three stars is because it felt like the author had a hard time distinguishing different concepts. He liked to use diagrams in many situations which......more