Introducing Artificial Intelligence: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides) Paperback – Illustrated, 3 May 2012

good book

A very useful read to support me with a project. The conversion of this title to an ebook did not work perfectly as each graphic text was repeated but it was still useful. It taught me not to fear AI and to recognise that it is really surprisingly limited in its application.

Clear introduction to the subject.

Some fascinating stuff there. Specially around the link between mind and body and the birth of language as an interaction between communication and internal modeling. Good pointers to dig deeper on some issues.

Good product,

Interesting enough, and complex ideas well explained in an engaging fashion, but already seems massively out of date in 2020.

Almost this entire book could have been written in 1988. For me that was when decades of armchair academics speculating over the definition of words and arguing with no or little evidence were swept aside by the event of doctoral students getting their hands on faster machines. Pretty much every problem deemed impossible in 1980 the solution is now available on every smart phone. Don’t try to play chess, checkers, recognise your friends, translate language in a battle against your phone. You will lose. Industrial robots are amazing and can’t be dismissed as not proper robots.I guess the author has spent his life arguing in essays, while the people making progress have been wrIting code.This is a useful history book. If you want to learn AI then look at Google and find a problem you want to solve. And write some code.

I nice wee book thats good at explaining the foundations of AI and how and maybe it can evolve. Only thing that annoyed me was most of the pages were about 5 or 6 lines each. Not sure if that was because of it being kindle or not. However, it is worthh a read if you want to get into AI.