The Age of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field of computer science that is concerned with creating intelligent agents, which are systems that can reason, learn, and act autonomously. AI has seen rapid development over the past few decades, and today it is used in a wide range of applications, including self-driving cars, facial recognition, machine translation and medical diagnostics.This book tells the history of AI, breaking it down into decades. Each chapter addresses a different period of AI development, and shows how technological advances have enabled the creation of increasingly sophisticated intelligent agents. The book reaches the present day, in the age of LLMs (Large Language Models), which are language models capable of generating text, translating languages, writing different types of creative content and answering your questions in an informative way. Read more