Artificial Intelligence

Everything you need to know about the coming AI. A Ladybird Expert Book

THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – FROM ALAN TURING TO THE AGE OF ALEXA

By Michael Wooldridge – Presenter of the 2023 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture

'I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?' Alan Turing (1950)

Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series.

This book is for everyone living in the age of Artificial Intelligence. And this is an accessible and authoritative introduction to one of the most important conversations of our time .

Written by computer scientist Michael Wooldridge, Artificial Intelligence chronicles the development of intelligent machines, from Turing's dream of machines that think, to today's digital assistants like Siri and Alexa.

AI is not something that awaits us in the future. Inside you'll learn how we have come to rely on embedded AI software and what a world of ubiquitous AI might look like.

What's inside?

- The British mathematician Alan Turing
- Can machines 'understand'?
- Logical and Behavioural AI
- The reality of AI today
- AI tomorrow
- And much more .

For an adult readership, the Ladybird Expert series is produced in the same iconic small hardback format pioneered by the original Ladybirds. Each beautifully illustrated book features the first new illustrations produced in the original Ladybird style for nearly forty years.

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