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These Strange New Minds - How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means (Paperback)
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These Strange New Minds - How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means (Paperback)
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Stunning advances in digital technology have given us a new wave of
disarmingly human-like AI systems. Chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude and
Gemini put the knowledge of all the world’s experts at our fingertips,
and can generate meaningful sentences, equations and computer code. The
march of this new technology is set to upturn our economies, challenge
our democracies, and refashion society in unpredictable ways. We can
expect these AI systems to soon be making autonomous decisions on the
user’s behalf, with transformative impact on everything we do. It is
vital we understand how they work. Can AI systems ‘think’, ‘know’ and
‘understand’? Could they manipulate or deceive you, and if so, what
might they make you do? Whose interests do they ultimately represent?
And when will they be able to move beyond words and take actions for
themselves in the real world?
To answer these questions, neuroscientist and AI researcher Christopher
Summerfield explains how these strange new minds work. He charts the
evolution of AI, from the earliest inklings about thinking machines in
the seventeenth century to today’s gargantuan deep neural networks. The
resulting book is the most accessible, up-to-date and authoritative
exploration of this radical new technology. Ultimately, armed with an
understanding of AI’s mysterious inner workings, we can begin to
grapple with the existential question of our age: can we look forward
to a technological utopia, or are we in the process of writing
ourselves out of history?
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