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A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence 人工智慧（AI）歷史
有關人工智慧（AI, Artificial Intelligence）的討論熱度從未削減，從應用領域到倫理議題，技術的躍進都將大幅地改變我們的生活。在本書中作者Michael Wooldridge廣泛而淺近地帶領讀者了解人工智慧，除了將使讀者掌握其中的歷史過程，本書也試圖解開我們心中對於人工智慧的擔憂與疑慮，使我們重新看見技術的演進將如何影響並改善了社會。
The somewhat ill-defined long-term aim of AI is to build machines that are conscious, self-aware, and sentient; machines capable of the kind of intelligent autonomous action that currently only people are capable of. As an AI researcher with 25 years of experience, professor Mike Wooldridge has learned to be obsessively cautious about such claims, while still promoting an intense optimism about the future of the field. There have been genuine scientific breakthroughs that have made AI systems possible in the past decade that the founders of the field would have hailed as miraculous. Driverless cars and automated translation tools are just two examples of AI technologies that have become a practical, everyday reality in the past few years, and which will have a huge impact on our world.
While the dream of conscious machines remains, Professor Wooldridge believes, a distant prospect, the floodgates for AI have opened. Wooldridgeˊs A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence is an exciting romp through the history of this groundbreaking field--a one-stop-shop for AIˊs past, present, and world-changing future.
