• Machines That Think

  • Everything You Need to Know About the Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence
  • By: New Scientist
  • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
  • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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Machines That Think

By: New Scientist
Narrated by: Mark Elstob
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Machines That Think explores how artificial intelligence helps us understand human intelligence, machines that compose music and write stories - and asks if AI is really a threat.

Sometime in the future, the intelligence of machines will exceed that of human brain power. So are we on the edge of an AI-pocalypse, with superintelligent devices superseding humanity, as predicted by Stephen Hawking? Or will this herald a kind of utopia, with machines doing a far better job at complex tasks than us?

You might not realise it, but you interact with AIs every day. They route your phone calls, approve your credit card transactions and help your doctor interpret results. Driverless cars will soon be on the roads, with decision-making computers in charge. But how do machines actually think and learn?

©2017 New Scientist (P)2017 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

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Great introduction

This book gives a great introduction of artificial intelligence. It has a nice historical view. It unfortunately needs updating in the last years new tools made it in the hands of consumers. Giving them augmenting creativity tools, for text, audio, images, video and voices. All very realistic thanks to large language models and deep learning.

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