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It's Alive! : Artificial Intelligence from the Logic Piano to Killer Robots - Toby Walsh

It's Alive!

Artificial Intelligence from the Logic Piano to Killer Robots

By: Toby Walsh

Paperback | 1 August 2017

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There are few other human inventions that are likely to have as large an impact on our lives as machines that can think . . . The steam engine liberated our muscles. The computer is set to liberate our minds.

The development of thinking machines is an adventure as bold and ambitious as any that humans have attempted. And the truth is that Artificial Intelligence is already an indispensable part of our daily lives. Without it, Google wouldn't find out whatever you need to know. Your smartphone would be . . . just a phone. In countless ways AI has made the world what it is today.

But where will AI technologies take us in the future? We know they will continue to change society, but how? Will AI destroy our jobs? Could it even pose an existential threat? What should we be doing now to prepare for the future?

In this new book, Toby Walsh provides a fascinating survey of Artificial Intelligence for the general reader- where it came from, the state of the art today, and where it will take us tomorrow. His ten predictions of what AI will have achieved by 2050 will surprise you! Walsh discusses how AI will transform our societies, our economies and even ourselves, and what we can do about this.

About the Author

Toby Walsh is one of the world’s leading researchers in Artificial Intelligence. He is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales and leads a research group at Data61, Australia’s Centre of Excellence for ICT Research. He has been elected a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of AI for his contributions to AI research, and has won the prestigious Humboldt research award. He has previously held research positions in England, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland and Sweden.
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'A whirlwind tour through the history and the future of AI - and why it matters to all of us. A must-read.' Sebastian Thrun, Stanford/Google/Udacity


'Toby Walsh's story of how Artificial Intelligence evolved from the dreams of Alan Turing to a powerful technological force today is exciting, insightful and incisive. Will his predictions about how AI will change life as we know it in the coming decades prove equally dead-on? I, for one, would not bet against him!' Henry Kautz, Past President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Founding Director of the Institute for Data Science, and Professor at the University of Rochester


'A comprehensive overview that avoids the hype and explains what AI can actually do, written by an expert practitioner of the field.' Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, and co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach


'You've heard the hype, now read about the reality from one of the leading researchers in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In his elegant prose, Prof. Toby Walsh describes the past, present, and future of AI - culminating in ten tantalizing predictions for the impact of AI on medicine, transportation, entertainment, and more by 2050.' Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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Non-FictionSociety & CultureCultural StudiesComputing & I.T.Computer ScienceArtificial IntelligenceScienceScience in GeneralImpact of Science & Technology on Society

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