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Artificial Intelligence

From Machine Learning to Super-Intelligence and the Singularity
By Richard Urwin
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What is artificial intelligence? What problems does it solve? Should we fear its potential? In this highly accessible guide to the subject, Richard Urwin explains how AI came about and how it has developed over the years through the construction of ever more sophisticated computer programs.... Read More
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What is artificial intelligence? What problems does it solve? Should we fear its potential? In this highly accessible guide to the subject, Richard Urwin explains how AI came about and how it has developed over the years through the construction of ever more sophisticated computer programs.

From primitive calculators and early robotics to stock market analytics and ChatGPT, readers can explore the history and far-reaching capabilities of this dynamic field and its potentially frightening possibilities.

Includes:

  • The History of Artificial Intelligence
  • Data-mining and Statistics
  • Deep learning
  • Swarm Intelligence
  • The singularity

By turns fascinating and scary, Artificial Intelligence will take the reader on an amazing journey of this field's world-changing potential.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781398837638

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 September 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Arcturus

Illustration: Paperback

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 366g

Pages: 208

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Computing & Technology Education & Reference Non-Fiction Richard Urwin

About the Author

Richard Urwin lives in Leicester. He has been a software engineer all his working life, specialising in embedded control systems. He enjoys roleplaying games, science-fiction and hill-walking, although these days he wishes the hills were flatter. He wrote his first artificial intelligence program in 1975 and has retained an interest in the field ever since. The first edition of this book was his first published work and has now been fully updated.

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