Thinking Machines, Luke Dormehl
Thinking Machines, Luke Dormehl
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Thinking Machines
The Quest for Artificial Intelligence--and Where It's Taking Us Next

Author: Luke Dormehl

Narrator: Gus Brown

Unabridged: 8 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/07/2017

Synopsis

When most of us think about Artificial Intelligence, our minds go straight to cyborgs, robots, and sci-fi thrillers where machines take over the world. But the truth is that Artificial Intelligence is already among us. It exists in our smartphones, fitness trackers, and refrigerators that tell us when the milk will expire. In some ways, the future people dreamed of at the World's Fair in the 1960s is already here. We're teaching our machines how to think like humans, and they're learning at an incredible rate.

In Thinking Machines, technology journalist Luke Dormehl takes you through the history of AI and how it makes up the foundations of the machines that think for us today. Furthermore, Dormehl speculates on the incredible—and possibly terrifying—future that's much closer than many would imagine. This remarkable book will invite you to marvel at what now seems commonplace and to dream about a future in which the scope of humanity may need to widen to include intelligent machines.

About Luke Dormehl

Luke Dormehl is a technology journalist, filmmaker and author, who has written for Fast Company, Wired, Consumer Reports, Politico, The L.A. Times, and other publications. He is also the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems... And Create More.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Beauregard on March 24, 2017

There's nothing in this book for which I could recommend it. There's a little history of AI and multiple news stories from the recent press all probably familiar to most listeners. The world is changing and networks and AI are happening, but at the most the author only gives surface explanations for......more

Goodreads review by Soubhagya on June 04, 2017

Thinking Machine tries to capture the innovation and progress happening in the field of Artificial Intelligence. It is targeted for laymen and is easy to read. The author starts the book brilliantly by capturing the history of AI, initial enthusiasm followed by the dull period and then the rise of A......more

Goodreads review by Amelie on May 29, 2017

This book involves a wide overview of the fast growing field of AI and served as an excellent read for anyone who is technology literate but no computer scientist. It begins with the history of symbolic AI and the old guard of scientists that pioneered the field like Marvin Minsky and introduces cla......more

Goodreads review by Diana on April 30, 2017

The subject matter of this book is really interesting. Multiple times, I remarked out loud or read something to my boyfriend. The writing, however, left something to be desired. I don't like when a writer brings himself into the piece. If it's not about you, I don't want your first person. It was mor......more

Goodreads review by Sotiris on March 09, 2018

A very good overview from 40s to now on the AI and efforts related to that. Written in an easy to understand but does not take into account concerns related to the "omnipresent" nature of AI. I will gladly recommend this book to any one that wants to understand the history of AI, in layman terms.......more

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