A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going by Michael Wooldridge. Michael is Head of Department of Computer Science and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford.
Is artificial intelligence intimidating to you? Above all this is a very easy, enjoyable book. So, Michael states in his introduction “I’m writing a popular science introduction to artificial intelligence.”
Accordingly, Michael has researched artificial intelligence for over 30 years. He is focusing on multi-agent systems drawing upon ideas from game theory, logic, computational complexity, and agent-based modeling.
A short history begins with Alan Turing’s work in 1935 at Cambridge during World War II. This is beyond America’s cultural understanding of Turing’s life from the 2014 movie The Imitation Game. Alan Turing actually defined artificial intelligence.
Machine Learning
Chapter 5: Deep Breakthroughs, addresses why Google acquired DeepMind Technologies, a British-based research laboratory in 2014. Founded in September 2010, DeepMind was introducing a term bounced around a lot: Machine Learning.
There is certainly a great misunderstanding regarding machine learning and deep learning. Additionally, Micheal’s efforts are to be complimented in making this topic understandable.