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THE #2 TIMES BESTSELLER

‘Artificial intelligence is going to have a massive impact on everyone’s lives… an accessible and sensible read that helps demystify AI’ Deborah Meaden, entrepreneur and star of Dragon’s Den

‘Nigel Toon is a visionary leader in the field of artificial intelligence… a must-read’ Marc Tremblay, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft

Those who understand how AI thinks will inherit the future.

Our search engines are becoming answer engines. Artificial intelligence is already revolutionising sectors from education to healthcare to the creative arts. But how does an AI understand sentiment or context? How does it play and win games that have an almost infinite number of moves? And how can we work with AI to produce insights and innovations that are beyond human capacity, from writing code in an instant to unfolding the elaborate 3D puzzles of proteins?

We are in the midst of a historic change that is disrupting society and at the same time creating enormous opportunities for those who understand how AI thinks. Nigel Toon shows how we train AI to train itself, so that it can paint images that have never existed before or converse in any language. In doing so he reveals the strange and fascinating ways that humans think, too, as we learn how to live in a world shared by machine intelligences of our own creation.

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Few books are more timely than How AI Thinks, an accessible guide that walks the reader through the technology’s developmental history right back to the days before the computer… This is a fascinating read. — Simon Hunt * Evening Standard * A sparky new book on artificial intelligence… How AI Thinks provides a brisk and well-grounded introduction to how AI has evolved since the term was first coined in 1955, how it is used today and how it may (we hope) be controlled. — John Thornhill * Financial Times *