Understanding Artificial Intelligence by Nicolas Sabouret Summary
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Demystifying AI without the jargon, Professor Sabouret's guide untangles complex algorithms with striking clarity. Rated 4.2/5 by readers who call it "highly addictive," this book reveals why AI isn't sentient - and why that matters for our technological future.
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The Thinking Machines: What AI Really Is
Imagine a world champion being defeated at an ancient board game by a machine that makes moves no human would consider. This happened in 2016 when AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol at Go, seeming to confirm our deepest hopes and fears about intelligent machines. Yet this achievement represents something fundamentally different than the sentient robots of science fiction. Artificial intelligence isn't about machines becoming intelligent in the human sense-they remain tools following instructions. AI is the latest evolution in humanity's long history of tool creation, from stone implements to agricultural tools to complex machines. Like a car outrunning Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt, AI outperforms humans in specific domains without possessing consciousness or self-awareness. The wonder isn't that machines have become intelligent, but that human ingenuity has created tools that perform increasingly sophisticated tasks in ways that sometimes appear magical.
Algorithms: The Recipe Behind Intelligence
The Computational Explosion Problem
From Chess to Deep Learning: AI's Evolution
Nature-Inspired Intelligence
The Human Element: AI's Limitations and Future
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