Artificial Intelligence: A Ladybird Expert Book

Publisher:
Penguin Random House
| Author:
Wooldridge, Michael
| Language:
English
| Format:
Hardback
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Author:
Wooldridge, Michael
Language:
English
Format:
Hardback

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I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?’ Alan Turing (195) Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series. This book is for everyone living in the age of Artificial Intelligence. And this is an accessible and authoritative introduction to one of the most important conversations of our time . . . Written by computer scientist Michael Wooldridge, Artificial Intelligence chronicles the development of intelligent machines, from Turing’s dream of machines that think, to today’s digital assistants like Siri and Alexa. AI is not something that awaits us in the future. Inside you’ll learn how we have come to rely on embedded AI software and what a world of ubiquitous AI might look like. What’s inside? – The British mathematician Alan Turing – Can machines ‘understand’? – Logical and Behavioural AI – The reality of AI today – AI tomorrow – And much more . . . For an adult readership, the Ladybird Expert series is produced in the same iconic small hardback format pioneered by the original Ladybirds. Each beautifully illustrated book features the first new illustrations produced in the original Ladybird style for nearly forty years.

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I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?’ Alan Turing (195) Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series. This book is for everyone living in the age of Artificial Intelligence. And this is an accessible and authoritative introduction to one of the most important conversations of our time . . . Written by computer scientist Michael Wooldridge, Artificial Intelligence chronicles the development of intelligent machines, from Turing’s dream of machines that think, to today’s digital assistants like Siri and Alexa. AI is not something that awaits us in the future. Inside you’ll learn how we have come to rely on embedded AI software and what a world of ubiquitous AI might look like. What’s inside? – The British mathematician Alan Turing – Can machines ‘understand’? – Logical and Behavioural AI – The reality of AI today – AI tomorrow – And much more . . . For an adult readership, the Ladybird Expert series is produced in the same iconic small hardback format pioneered by the original Ladybirds. Each beautifully illustrated book features the first new illustrations produced in the original Ladybird style for nearly forty years.

About Author

Michael Wooldridge is a professor of Computer Science and Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, where he is a Fellow of Hertford College. He has been an AI researcher since 1989, and has published more than 35 scientific articles on the subject. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Association for the Advancement of AI (AAAI) and the European Association for AI (EurAI). From 214 to 216, he was President of the European Association for AI, and from 215 to 217 he was President of the International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI). He lives in Oxford with his wife and two children.

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