Melanie Mitchell, “Artificial Intelligence: A guide for thinking humans”

Doors open at 6:00 p.m.

No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. Award-winning author and leading computer scientist, Melanie Mitchell now reveals its turbulent history and the recent surge of apparent successes, grand hopes, and emerging fears that surround AI. Interweaving stories about the science and the people behind it, "Artificial Intelligence" brims with clear-sighted, captivating, accounts of the most provocative modern work in AI. 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.

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