Michael Wooldridge: The Road to Conscious Machines Thornton

Michael Wooldridge: The Road to Conscious Machines ThorntonPelican, 2021, softcover, 416 pages, 11. 1 x 18. 1 cm In this myth busting guide to AI past and present, one of the world's leading researchers shows why our fears for the future are misplaced. The ultimate dream of AI is to build machines that are like us: conscious and self aware. While this remains a remote possibility, rapid progress in AI is already transforming our world. Yet the public debate is still largely centred on unlikely prospects, from

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