FAKING IT

Refreshingly clear eyed Faking It is an insightful and intelligent book that s a must for those looking for facts about AI hype Books Publishing AI will be as big a game changer as the smart phone and the personal computer or bigger This book will help you navigate the revolution Dr Karl Kruszelnicki Artificial intelligence is as the name suggests artificial and fundamentally different to human intelligence Yet often the goal of AI is to fake human intelligence This deceit has been there from the very beginning We ve been trying to fake it since Alan Turing answered the question Can machines think by proposing that machines pretend to be humans Now we are starting to build AI that truly deceives us Powerful AIs such as ChatGPT can convince us they are intelligent and blur the distinction between what is real and what is simulated In reality they lack true understanding sentience and common sense But this doesn t mean they can t change the world Can AI systems ever be creative Can they be moral What can we do to ensure they are not harmful In this fun and fascinating book Professor Toby Walsh explores all the ways AI fakes it and what this means for humanity now and in the future