What AI combined with robotics will bring humanity — a journey from the first AI lectures of the 1980s through the great AI winter, the long years of patience, to the explosion of deep learning and ChatGPT.
The book spans from Lisp and Prolog through the Dartmouth dreams of McCarthy and Minsky, Japan's Fifth Generation project, Deep Blue's victory over Kasparov, to the democratization of intelligence through ChatGPT — and envisions two scenarios for the future: paradise for all or digital totalitarianism.
Topics
- The Promise (1980-1987)
- The Great Frost — the AI Winter (1987-1993)
- The Long Years of Patience (1993-2012)
- The Explosion (2012-2026)
- Two Futures: Prosperity for all or total control?
- What politics must do now — eight demands for lawmakers