AIQ

How artificial intelligence works and how we can harness its power for a better world

By: Nick Polson, James Scott

Write A Review

eBook | 7 June 2018

At a Glance

ePUB
272 Pages

eBook

$18.99

or 4 interest-free payments of $4.75 with

Instant Digital Delivery to your Kobo Reader App

____________________

What is AIQ? How does it work? Most importantly, how can it help us?

Two leading data scientists offer an up-close and user-friendly look at artificial intelligence and how to harness its power for a better world.

'A positive and entertaining look at the great potential unlocked by marrying human creativity with powerful machines.' Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics
____________________

Dozens of times per day, we all interact with intelligent machines that are constantly learning from the wealth of data now available to them. These machines, from smart phones to talking robots to self-driving cars, are remaking the world in the twenty first century in the same way that the Industrial Revolution remade the world in the nineteenth.

AIQ is based on a simple premise: if you want to understand the modern world, then you have to know a little bit of the mathematical language spoken by intelligent machines. AIQ will teach you that language but in an unconventional way, anchored in stories rather than equations.

Industry Reviews

"At last, a book on the ideas behind AI and data science by people who really understand data. Cutting through the usual journalistic puff and myths, they clearly explain the underlying ideas behind the way that troughloads of data are being harnessed to build the algorithms that can carry out such extraordinary feats. But they are also clear about the limitations and potential risks of these algorithms, and the need for society to scrutinise and even regulate their use. A real page-turner, with fine stories and just enough detail: I learned a lot."