Artificial Intelligence is unarguably among the most elite modern day computer concepts. It is also unarguably among the most baffling and misunderstood ones. AI is the future of life as ordinary people know it. It is a rapidly changing and complex technology that has already stealthily invaded homes and workplaces, permanently altering lifestyles, communication methods, and modes of thinking and response. Yet laymen remain unclear as to what AI actually is.
This book is an introduction to AI and a practical guide on how to move forward in the field. The first book of its kind that is equally enlightening for all people from grades 5 to graduate level, it seeks to addrress the most perplexing and misconstrued questions surrounding a layman's understanding of AI.
What exactly is AI? How can an ordinary person learn about it? Will artificial intelligence end common professions in the world? Will mankind become completely dependent on computers? Will computers become capable of thinking and pondering by themselves? Will they know what they're doing? Will they be able to make independent decisions in new and complicated situations? Will they be able to fix themselves? And if they do, will they still follow human commands and abide by moral and social codes? These are all the questions that AI research is striving to answer at present.
The future belongs to AI and progress and innovation in any field is impossible without understanding it adapting to the new age of intelligent machines.
