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Architects of Intelligence

The truth about AI from the people building it

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
By: Martin Ford and  Trident Media Group  
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|Dec 2018
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Bestselling author Martin Ford talks to a hall-of-fame list of the world's top AI experts, delving into the future of AI, its impact on society and the issues we should be genuinely concerned about as the field advances.

Key Features

  • Interviews with AI leaders and practitioners
  • A snapshot of the current state of AI, where it is headed and how it will impact society
  • Voices from across AI and the scientific community

Book Description

Financial Times Best Books of the Year 2018

TechRepublic Top Books Every Techie Should Read

How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances?

Architects of Intelligence contains a series of in-depth, one-to-one interviews where New York Times bestselling author, Martin Ford, uncovers the truth behind these questions from some of the brightest minds in the Artificial Intelligence community.

Martin has wide-ranging conversations with twenty-three of the world's foremost researchers and entrepreneurs working in AI and robotics: Demis Hassabis (DeepMind), Ray Kurzweil (Google), Geoffrey Hinton (Univ. of Toronto and Google), Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics), Yann LeCun (Facebook) , Fei-Fei Li (Stanford and Google), Yoshua Bengio (Univ. of Montreal), Andrew Ng (AI Fund), Daphne Koller (Stanford), Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley), Nick Bostrom (Univ. of Oxford), Barbara Grosz (Harvard), David Ferrucci (Elemental Cognition), James Manyika (McKinsey), Judea Pearl (UCLA), Josh Tenenbaum (MIT), Rana el Kaliouby (Affectiva), Daniela Rus (MIT), Jeff Dean (Google), Cynthia Breazeal (MIT), Oren Etzioni (Allen Institute for AI), Gary Marcus (NYU), and Bryan Johnson (Kernel).

Martin Ford is a prominent futurist, and author of Financial Times Business Book of the Year, Rise of the Robots. He speaks at conferences and companies around the world on what AI and automation might mean for the future.

Meet the minds behind the AI superpowers as they discuss the science, business and ethics of modern artificial intelligence. Read James Manyika’s thoughts on AI analytics, Geoffrey Hinton’s breakthroughs in AI programming and development, and Rana el Kaliouby’s insights into AI marketing. This AI book collects the opinions of the luminaries of the AI business, such as Stuart Russell (coauthor of the leading AI textbook), Rodney Brooks (a leader in AI robotics), Demis Hassabis (chess prodigy and mind behind AlphaGo), and Yoshua Bengio (leader in deep learning) to complete your AI education and give you an AI advantage in 2019 and the future.

What you will learn

  • The state of modern AI
  • How AI will evolve and the breakthroughs we can expect
  • Insights into the minds of AI founders and leaders
  • How and when we will achieve human-level AI
  • The impact and risks associated with AI and its impact on society and the economy

Who this book is for

Anybody with an interest in artificial intelligence and the role it will play in the future of human life and work will find this a fascinating read. The discussions here are not only of interest to scientists and technologists, but to the wider reading public.

Table of Contents

  1. Stuart Russell
  2. Daphne Koller
  3. Barbara Grosz
  4. Roodney Brooks
  5. James Manyika
  6. Andrew NG
  7. Gary Marcus
  8. Yoshua Bengio
  9. Yann LeCun
  10. Ray Kurzweil
  11. Fei-Fei Li
  12. Daniela Rus
  13. Demis Hassabis
  14. Nick Bostrom
  15. David Ferrucci
  16. Oren Etzioni
  17. Cynthia Breazeal
  18. Jeff Dean
  19. Bryan Johnson
  20. Geoffrey Hinton
  21. Rana el Kaliouby
  22. Josh Tenenbaum
  23. Judea Pearl
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78913-126-0
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2018 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 554
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Fundamentals of computer sciences

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