Artificial Intelligence

Modern Magic or Dangerous Future?

By Yorick Wilks

Artificial Intelligence or AI is much talked about but what is it and how could it be relevant to you? This is where Artificial Intelligence: The Illustrated Edition steps in providing and intriguing and beautifully illustrated guide to the AI.

Artificial Intelligence is a hardback book that is presents in a very accessible way the essential companion to this unsettling science. It surveys the history, philosophies, and current state of AI, and asks key questions such as how should robots think, and can machines really learn? With subjects ranging from the World Wide Web to artificial companions, the book considers such ethical issues as automated warfare, internet surveillance, and fake news, speculating on just how far robots will infiltrate our future.

The benefits and potential nightmares of artificial intelligence have long inspired science-fiction writers, but in a world where most of us carry a portable device that knows infinitely more than we do, these are increasingly real concerns. Artificial Intelligence is illustrated with compelling photographs with 'circuit-board' infographics to lift the curtain on the hidden world of AI. If you want to understand what AI is already doing for you and what it could do in the future, then is a book for you.

Size 170x235mm, 256 pages
ISBN: 9781785789939