The story of AI isn’t finished yet. The question is: how will you be part of it?
With the unprecedented adoption of artificial intelligence and its far-reaching implications, people everywhere are witnessing the world change around them. Artificially Intelligent answers today’s most pressing questions about AI – from the fundamental to the futuristic – offering readers a new, informed worldview.
In an age of unparalleled innovation and change, artificial intelligence has become the heart of our fears, discussions, and debates. Thus, AI researcher and award-winner David Eliot takes readers on a journey through the key moments and decisions that have shaped its creation and our world. A socially driven history, the book explores its technical breakthroughs and the social forces that made them possible.
But this book isn’t just about the past – it’s about you. Artificially Intelligent invites readers to find their place in the story of AI, to understand its impact on their lives, and to decide what kind of future they want to help create.
Artificially Intelligent tells the story of the technology the way it was meant to be told: not as an exhaustive retelling of history, nor as a prophecy of doom and gloom, but as a human story that is not yet complete.
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Act 1: The Foundations: War, Inheritance, and the Poet’s Daughter
1. The Household Name that No One Knows
2. The Enchantress of Numbers
3. War Hero
4. The War
Act 2: The Chess Game: How We Got Here
5. Setting the Board
6. The Opening
7. Let the Middle Game Begin
8. The Hippie at My Door
9. The Machine
10. Ties that Bind
11. The New Machine
12. The End Game
Act 3: Frankenstein’s Monster: Fear and Hope
13. Understanding the Monster
14. Aftermath
15. GPT
16. Beyond Generative AI
17. The New Computer
18. Apple from the Top Rope
19. The Surveillance State
20. Data and Power
21. The Ubiquitous Machine
22. The Apple
23. Addressing the Elephant in the Room
24. Hope
A Note from the Author
Notes
Height:229
Width:152
Spine:25
Weight:1.00