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Artificial Intelligence

How it emerged, why it failed more than once, why it is accelerating now — and which forces are likely to shape its next phase.

Chapter overview

  1. The dream of machine thought
  2. The birth of AI: the first euphoria
  3. When rules were supposed to explain the world
  4. Hype, limits, and AI winters
  5. When machines began to learn from data
  6. Why the breakthrough came now
  7. AI becomes infrastructure
  8. Horizons: what seems plausible in 2, 10 and 50 years