The Brain Makers: The History of Artificial Intelligence – Genius, Ego, And Greed In The Quest For Machines That Think by HP Newquist ISBN B08MT5S8LP instant download

The Brain Makers: The History of Artificial Intelligence – Genius, Ego, And Greed In The Quest For Machines That Think by HP Newquist ISBN B08MT5S8LP instant download

"The Brain Makers" is the definitive history of artificial intelligence (AI). From ancient myth to modern computers, the book explores the attempt to create machines that behave and think like humans. Along the way, readers meet the mythical Talas, Frankenstein's monster, Edgar Allan Poe's chess player, and the first mechanical robots--and are then introduced to the work of Alan Turing and the secretive military research labs of the 1960s. An entire industry was built around AI in the 1980s, one which came crashing down once the promises of thinking machines proved to be more than researchers could accomplish. Everything changed in 2015, when AI came roaring back as the most fascinating--and feared--technology ever developed. All along, HP Newquist, the leading writer in the AI industry for more than a decade, gives an insider's perspective to the history, providing detailed accounts of the genius, ego, and greed that helped to make artificial intelligence the one technology that governments, corporations, and researchers around the world agree will change the world.

"'The Brain Makers' engagingly tells the story of artificial intelligence's rise and fall and gradual redemption, investing it with all the high drama and unexpected revelations of a celebrity memoir." - Omni Magazine

"Newquist gives the glory days of artificial intelligence an official record." - The Boston Globe

HP Newquist

Award-winning author HP Newquist has written more than two dozen books on everything from music and medicine on to the technological and terrifying. His writing has been published all over the world and has been translated into languages from kanji to farsi. His work has been cited by The New York Times, The Economist, USA Today, Forbes, Fortune, the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal.

In addition to his books, articles, and essays, Newquist was Editor-In-Chief of GUITAR magazine; he founded AI TRENDS, the first publication about the business of Artificial Intelligence; he wrote two documentary films – one of which was nominated for an Emmy Award; and created The National GUITAR Museum, the first museum dedicated to the world's most popular instrument. His first novel is BEHEMOTH.

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