Artificial Intelligence: From Machine Learning to Super-Intelligence and the Singularity

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.

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.