num_pages: 272
description: From Oxford's leading AI researcher comes a fun and accessible tour through the history and future of one of the most cutting edge and misunderstood field in Artificial IntelligenceThe somewhat ill-defined long-term aim of AI is to build machines that are conscious self-aware and sentient; machines capable of the kind of intelligent autonomous action that currently only people are capable of. As an AI researcher with 25 years of experience professor Mike Wooldridge has learned to be obsessively cautious about such claims while still promoting an intense optimism about the future of the field. There have been genuine scientific breakthroughs that have made AI systems possible in the past decade that the founders of the field would have hailed as miraculous. Driverless cars and automated translation tools are just two examples of AI technologies that have become a practical everyday reality in the past few years and which will have a huge impact on our world.While the dream of conscious machines remains Professor Wooldridge believes a distant prospect the floodgates for AI have opened. Wooldridge's A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence is an exciting romp through the history of this groundbreaking field--a one-stop-shop for AI's past present and world-changing future.
language: English
title: A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going
publisher: Flatiron Books