50 AI Ideas You Really Need to Know

Master the technology reshaping our world today.

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Keith Mansfield introduces and explains the essential concepts, ideas and key thinkers behind artificial intelligence.

From Alan Turing asking ’can machines think?’ and the best prompting techniques for generative AI, to Superintelligence and the Singularity, 50 AI Ideas You Really Need to Know is a complete introduction to the most important AI concepts: past, present and future.

Excellent balance between perspective and technical understanding and great clarity. - Neil Lawrence, inaugural DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge, and author of The Atomic Human.

Keith Mansfield has been a publisher in the areas of computing, technology and science for over twenty years. A mathematical physicist from Trinity College, Cambridge, he is currently working with the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute and the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative. He is the author of three science fiction novels.