Thinking machines : the quest for artificial intelligence and where its taking us next A fascinating look at Artificial Intelligence from its humble Cold War beginnings to the dazzling future that is just around the corner. When most of us think about Artificial Intelligence our minds go straight to cyborgs robots and sci fi thrillers where machines take over the world. But the truth is that Artificial Intelligence is already among us. It exists in our smartphones fitness trackers and refrigerators that tell us when the milk will expire. In some ways the future people dreamed of at the Worlds Fair in the 1960s is already here. Were teaching our machines how to think like humans and theyre learning at an incredible rate. In Thinking Machines technology journalist Luke Dormehl takes you through the history of AI and how it makes up the foundations of the machines that think for us today. Furthermore Dormehl speculates on the incredible and possibly terrifying future thats much closer than many would imagine. This remarkable book will invite you to marvel at what now seems commonplace and to dream about a future in which the scope of humanity may need to widen to include intelligent machines