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Thinking Machines
- Author
- Luke Dormehl
- Narrator
- Gus Brown
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Publish Date
- 7 March 2017
- Run Time
- 8 hours 13 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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 that's 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.
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- Author
- Luke Dormehl
- Narrator
- Gus Brown
- Duration
- 8 hours 13 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 March 2017
- ISBN
- 9781681684321
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Genre
- Information technology: general topics, Technology: general issues, Science: general issues, Philosophy of science, Impact of science and technology on society, History of engineering and technology, Artificial intelligence
Synopsis
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 World's Fair in the 1960s is already here. We're teaching our machines how to think like humans, and they're 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 that's 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.
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