The shortcut : why intelligent machines do not think like us The author is one of the most influential AI reseachers of recent decades. Written in an accessible language the book provides a probing account of AI today and proposes a new narrative to connect and make sense of events that happened in the recent tumultuous past and enable us to think soberly about the road ahead. The book is divided into ten carefully crafted and easily digestible chapters each grapples with an important question for AI ranging from the scientific concepts that underpin the technology to wider implications for society using real examples wherever possible