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Understanding AI

by Rose Hall

A guide to AI’s capabilities and questions

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A guide to AI’s capabilities and questions

Rose Hall’s *Understanding AI* introduces the challenge of defining artificial intelligence and considers what machines can do now, alongside possibilities for the future. Its subject extends beyond technology: questions about creative work, how intelligent machines should be treated, potential risks, and the role of school and homework give the book a debating dimension. The description indicates that it addresses questions where answers are available while also raising issues for discussion, making the boundary between explanation and open-ended inquiry part of its structure.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults seeking an introduction to artificial intelligence.
  • Readers interested in debating AI’s effects on creativity, work, and education.
  • Young readers curious about the capabilities and possible risks of intelligent machines.

Themes

Defining artificial intelligenceMachine capabilities and future possibilitiesAI, creativity, and workEducation in an age of AIRisks and the treatment of intelligent machines

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Book overview

Artificial Intelligence is all about humans asking computers and other machines to think and even behave like humans, and to take on jobs that people find too difficult or too boring. But how do you actually define the term? What exactly can machines with AI already do, and what might they be able to do in the future?

This book answers all the questions - where answers exist - and raises debating points at every turn about what it all means. Should we be asking machines to do creative tasks, such as writing and illustrating books? Do we need to worry if intelligent machines need to be treated like people? Is there a chance that machines might take over the world, either by accident or on purpose? Is there any point going to school and doing homework if computers can do it all for us, and better?

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