Artificially Intelligent
The Very Human Story of AI

By (author) David Eliot

ISBN13: 9781487567675

Imprint: Aevo UTP

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Format: Hardback

Published: 21/10/2025

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Description
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
  • Impact of science & technology on society
  • History of science
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Ethical issues: scientific & technological developments
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Height:229
Width:152
Spine:25
Weight:1.00
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