A leading computer scientist brings human sense to the AI bubble.
Melanie Mitchell is a professor of Computer Science at Portland State University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. She is the author of An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms and Complexity- A Guided Tour, which won the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award.
If you think you understand AI and all of the related issues, you
don't. By the time you finish this exceptionally lucid and riveting
book you will breathe more easily and wisely
*Michael Gazzaniga, author of The Consciousness Instinct*
Melanie Mitchell writes about AI with a warm, friendly voice and an
unpretentious brilliance that no machine could hope to match... for
now
*Steven Strogatz, author of The Joy of X*
Computers are capable of feats of astonishing intelligence, while
at the same time lacking any semblance of common sense. Melanie
Mitchell takes us through an enlightening tour of how artificial
intelligence currently works, and how it falls short of true human
understanding
*Sean Carroll, author of The Big Picture*
A must read for anyone interested in the emerging revolution of AI,
machine learning and big data. Mitchell lays bare the hyperbole and
misconceptions that are being propagated in the media. This book
can be, and should be, read by the proverbial man or
woman-on-the-street, the Silicon Valley guru, members of Congress,
or a student of the humanities, as well as by professional
scientists and engineers. They will all profit enormously from
it
*Geoffrey West, author of Scale*
Mitchell cuts through the hype that the field of A.I. is often
prone to and lays out what it does well, where it fails, and how it
might do better
*George Musser, author of Spooky Action at a Distance*
Melanie Mitchell deftly provides the reader with a keen,
clear-sighted account of the history of AI and neural networks. A
wonderfully informative book
*John Allen Paulos, author of Innumeracy*
Mitchell is one of the finest minds in computation today, and one
of the clearest-spoken. She understands the power of a metaphor —
and why nearly all of the ones we have for AI are either simply
poor, in the best of cases, or dangerously misleading. If you want
to know where our current mayhem came from, read this account of
the field
*Cat Bohannon author of Eve*
The recent resurgence of AI has led to predictions of everything
from the end of the world to immortality. Melanie Mitchell’s very
intelligent, clear and sensible book is a welcome corrective to the
exaggerated fears and hopes for AI, and the prefect primer to start
understanding how the systems actually work
*Alison Gopnik, author of The Philosophical Baby*
Mitchell knows what she’s talking about. Even better, she’s a
clear, cogent and interesting writer . . . It has significantly
improved my knowledge when it comes to automation technology, but
the greater benefit is that it has also enhanced my appreciation
for the complexity and ineffability of human cognition
*Chicago Tribune*
Without shying away from technical details, this survey provides an
accessible course in neural networks, computer vision, and
natural-language processing, and asks whether the quest to produce
an abstracted, general intelligence is worrisome . . . Mitchell’s
view is a reassuring one
*The New Yorker*
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