Why read A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence?

Book cover of A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going

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From Oxford's leading AI researcher comes a fun and accessible tour through the history and future of one of the most cutting edge and misunderstood field in science: Artificial Intelligence

The somewhat ill-defined long-term aim of AI is to build machines that are conscious, self-aware, and sentient; machines capable of…

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1 author picked A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Ron Kneusel

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Woolridge presents the history of artificial intelligence from the point of view of an insider. This book is one of the few accounts of AI history presenting a measured perspective, one that has weathered more than one boom and bust cycle.

The book is nicely complemented by his recent series of lectures, which can be easily found on YouTube. I read Woolridge as saying, “Yes, something new has happened with the advent of large language models, but much work remains.”

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