How AI thinks: how we built it, how it can help us, and how we can control it / Nigel Toon

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Introduction -- PART 1: HOW AI BECAME POSSIBLE -- Chapter 1: The AI Revolution Has Already Started -- Chapter 2: Intelligent Machines -- Chapter 3: The Birth of AI -- Chapter 4: The Technology That Built AI - Part 1: Electronic Computers and Learning to See -- Chapter 5: The Technology That Built AI - Part 2: Semiconductors, Software and Attention -- Chapter 6: The Technology That Built AI - Part 3: Getting Creative, Getting Connected, and Getting More Information -- Chapter 7: Claude Shannon, the Father of Our Information Age -- PART 2: HOW IS AI DIFFERENT FROM HUMAN INTELLIGENCE? -- Chapter 8: What Is Intelligence? -- Chapter 9: More Intelligence -- Chapter 10: Consciousness -- Chapter 11: An Ultra-Intelligent Machine -- Chapter 12: Is a Singularity Event Possible? -- PART 3: DO WE UNDERSTAND AI'S INCREDIBLE POTENTIAL? -- Chapter 13: AI and the Environment -- Chapter 14: AI in Education -- Chapter 15: The AI Healthcare Revolution -- Chapter 16: The Challenges of AI -- Chapter 17: Responsible AI -- Chapter 18: How Technology Revolutions Happen -- Chapter 19: Making AI Work for Us.

We are used to thinking of computers as being a step up from calculators - very good at storing information, and maybe even at playing a logical game like chess. But up to now they haven't been able to think in ways that are intuitive, or respond to questions as a human might. All that has changed, dramatically, in the past few years. Our search engines are becoming answer engines. Artificial intelligence is already revolutionising sectors from education to healthcare to the creative arts. But how does an AI understand sentiment or context? How does it play and win games that have an almost infinite number of moves? And how can we work with AI to produce insights and innovations that are beyond human capacity, from writing code in an instant to unfolding the elaborate 3D puzzles of proteins? We stand at the brink of a historic change that will disrupt society and at the same time create enormous opportunities for those who understand how AI thinks. Nigel Toon shows how we train AI to train itself, so that it can paint images that have never existed before or converse in any language. In doing so he reveals the strange and fascinating ways that humans think, too, as we learn how to live in a world shared by machine intelligences of our own creation.