The Shortest History of AI The Shortest History of AI

The Shortest History of AI

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Publisher Description

Six ideas to understand artificial intelligence today

Since Alan Turing first posed the question, ‘Can machines think?’, artificial intelligence has evolved from a speculative idea to a transformative force. The Shortest History of AI traces this evolution, from Ada Lovelace’s visionary work to IBM’s groundbreaking defeat of the chess world champion and the revolutionary emergence of ChatGPT. It also explores AI’s cultural journey, touching on classics such as Frankenstein, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Revealing how many ‘overnight’ successes were decades in the making, this accessible and illuminating book simplifies AI into six key ideas, equipping readers to understand where we’ve been – and where we’re headed.

‘This history of AI in six simple ideas is so informative and easy to digest. Essential reading’—Dr Karl Kruszelnicki

‘One of the world’s brightest minds takes on one of the world’s biggest topics … Delicious!’—Adam Spencer

GENRE
Computing & Internet
RELEASED
2025
29 April
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
Schwartz Books Pty. Ltd.
SELLER
Black Inc., an imprint of Schwartz Media Pty Ltd
SIZE
3.3
MB

Customer Reviews

rhitc ,

AI for dummies

The author is a British-born and educated computer scientist who is professor of artificial intelligence in the UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering. In addition to his academic work, he has penned a number of popular science titles related to his area of expertise, of which this is the most recent.

As the title suggests, this book is a concise summary of the field from Babbage and Lovelace through to the present day. The prose is clear and well structured for lay readers and contains a number of personal anecdotes and sci-fi references, some more relevant than others IMO. The reference list is necessarily limited but appears to cover all the bases.

I have not read any of the author’s other books, but based on a quick scan of the contents, I suspect much of the material here was recycled, possibly with AI assistance.

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