Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
A good primer to the field. Hits the right depth between technical and theoretical layers, including quite a bit on ethics.
My takeaway is that we’re really, really far away from anything approaching what we think artificial intelligence was going to be. The key is that there’s a difference between (1) a specific algorithm meant to do a single thing, and (2) “general AI” which is meant to approximate the expansiveness, majesty, and self-awareness of human thought. We’re pretty good on the former, but the latter might be a pipe dream.
Melanie Mitchell is a great author. She wrote another excellent book on complexity theory.
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- Melanie Mitchell
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- Pages
- 336
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- OL20666330W
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