How AI Thinks: How we built it, how it can help us, and how we can control it

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Those who understand how AI thinks are about to win big. Leading AI entrepreneur Nigel Toon explains why it's so exciting, and how it can be controlled. We are used to thinking of computers as being a step up from calculators - very good at storing information, and maybe even at playing a logical game like chess. But up to now they haven't been able to think in ways that are intuitive, or respond to questions as a human might. All that has changed, dramatically, in the past few years. 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 stand at the brink of a historic change that will disrupt society and at the same time create 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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It was great to have all the strands that have created AI pulled together. Nigel Toon synthesizes everything so clearly, simply and in such an inspiring way. Every business leader should read this book. -- Sir Andrew MacKenzie, Chairman of Shell
This is both a brilliant history of the technologies that have built the modern world, as well as a guide to how AI can transform the future of health, education and climate. It paints a profound picture of the opportunities of AI to amplify human intelligence and is clear-sighted about how to govern the risks of the most powerful tool we have ever had. -- Benedict Macon-Cooney, Chief Policy Strategist, Tony Blair Institute

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Nigel Toon is the founder of Graphcore and a leading AI entrepreneur. He sits as a Non-Executive Director on the board of UK Research and Innovation council and has sat on the UK Prime Minister's Business Council. He has been recognized with numerous industry awards, being ranked #1 on Business Insider's UK Tech 100 and named as one of the 'Top 100 entrepreneurs in the UK' by the Financial Times. How AI Thinks is his first book.