A brief history of intelligence: Why the evolution of the brain holds the key to the future of AI
- London: William Collins, 2024.
- xiv, 415p., glos., note., bib., ind., 20 cm X 13 cm
Recommended by: Keval Kumar
Content:
The world before brains Breakthrough #1: Steering and the first bilaterians The birth of good bad The origin of emotion Associating, predicting, and the dawn of learning Breakthrough #2: Reinforcing and the first vertebrates The Cambrian explosion The evolution of Temporal Difference Learning The problems of pattern recognition Why life got curious The first model of the world Breakthrough #3: Simulating and the first mammals The neural dark ages Generative models and the neocortical mystery Mice in the imaginarium Model-based reinforcement learning The secret to dishwashing robots Breakthrough #4: Mentalizing and the first primates The arms race for political savvy How to model other minds Monkey hammers and self-driving cars Why rats can't go grocery shopping Breakthrough #5: Speaking and the first humans The search for human uniqueness Language in the brain The perfect storm ChatGPT and the window into the mind Conclusion: the sixth breakthrough.
978-0008560133
--artificial intelligence--brain--history--biological evolution--nervous system