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    Thinking Machines: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence--and Where It's Taking Us Next
    Thinking Machines: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence--and Where It's Taking Us Next
    Thinking Machines: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence--and Where It's Taking Us Next
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    Thinking Machines: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence--and Where It's Taking Us Next

    Written by Luke Dormehl

    Narrated by Gus Brown

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    About this audiobook

    When most of us think about Artificial Intelligence, our minds go straight to cyborgs, robots, and sci-fi thrillers where machines take over the world. But the truth is that Artificial Intelligence is already among us. It exists in our smartphones, fitness trackers, and refrigerators that tell us when the milk will expire. In some ways, the future people dreamed of at the World's Fair in the 1960s is already here. We're teaching our machines how to think like humans, and they're learning at an incredible rate.

    In Thinking Machines, technology journalist Luke Dormehl takes you through the history of AI and how it makes up the foundations of the machines that think for us today. Furthermore, Dormehl speculates on the incredible-and possibly terrifying-future that's much closer than many would imagine. This remarkable book will invite you to marvel at what now seems commonplace and to dream about a future in which the scope of humanity may need to widen to include intelligent machines.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateMar 7, 2017
    ISBN9781681684321
    Thinking Machines: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence--and Where It's Taking Us Next
    Author

    Luke Dormehl

    Luke Dormehl is a journalist and award-winning documentary filmmaker. His films have appeared on Channel 4 and played in prestigious film festivals around the world, from Cannes to Rushes, garnering praise from luminaries such as Ken Loach, Louis Theroux and Simon Callow. His writing has appeared extensively in dozens of online and print publications.

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