THESE STRANGE NEW MINDS

An engaging insightful and panoramic survey of where we are why we got here and what it means A brilliant guide to the most important technology of our times Mustafa Suleyman CEO of Microsoft AI & Cofounder of DeepMind Stunning advances in digital technology have given us a new wave of disarmingly human like AI systems Chatbots like ChatGPT Claude and Gemini put the knowledge of all the world s experts at our fingertips and can generate meaningful sentences equations and computer code The march of this new technology is set to upturn our economies challenge our democracies and refashion society in unpredictable ways We can expect these AI systems to soon be making autonomous decisions on the user s behalf with transformative impact on everything we do It is vital we understand how they work Can AI systems think know and understand Could they manipulate or deceive you and if so what might they make you do Whose interests do they ultimately represent And when will they be able to move beyond words and take actions for themselves in the real world To answer these questions neuroscientist and AI researcher Christopher Summerfield explains how these strange new minds work He charts the evolution of AI from the earliest inklings about thinking