Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

Melanie Mitchell separates science fact from science fiction in this sweeping examination of the current state of AI and how it is remaking our world. No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. The award-winning author Melanie Mitchell, a leading computer scientist, now reveals AI’s turbulent history and recent spate of apparent successes, grand hopes, and emerging fears surrounding it.