Product Description
Artificial Intelligence
Author: Michael Wooldridge
Format: Hardback
Everything you need to know about the coming AI. A Ladybird Expert Book
The Story of Artificial Intelligence - from Alan Turing to the Age of Alexa
By Michael Wooldridge - Presenter of the 2023 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture
'I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?' — Alan Turing (1950)
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?
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.
Features:
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The British mathematician Alan Turing
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Can machines 'understand'?
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Logical and Behavioural AI
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The reality of AI today
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AI tomorrow
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And much more
About the 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 400 scientific articles on the subject. From 2014 to 2016, he was President of the European Association for AI, and from 2015 to 2017 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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