The Shortest History of Ai

The Six Essential Ideas That Animate It

By: Toby Walsh

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Paperback | 4 November 2025

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The Shortest History of AIFrankenstein, A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,2001: A Space Odyssey.Revealing how many "overnight" successes were decades in the making, this accessible and illuminating book helps us to understand how AI functions by explaining the six key ideas that animate it:It searches for answers using pre-determined symbols and means-end analysis.It bases its answers on what sort of response it thinks it will get.It follows a set of rules in order to simulate human expertise.It copies the human brain by learning from experience.It uses reinforcement learning, rewarding its own successes and punishing itself for its failures.It uses Bayes' theorem to calculate the probability of a cause based on its effect.The Shortest History of AI

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