How AI thinks

Our search engines are becoming answer engines. Artificial intelligence is already revolutionizing sectors from education to healhcare 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 inovations that are beyond human capacity? We stand at the brink of a historical change that will disrupt society and at the same time create enormous opportunities for those who understand how AI thinks. Nigel Toon shows us how we can 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 facinating ways that humans think, too, as we learn how to live in a world shared by machine intelligences of our own creation.