The Road to Conscious Machines

In this myth-busting guide to AI past and present, one of the world's leading researchers shows why our fears for the future are misplaced.

The ultimate dream of AI is to build machines that are like us: conscious and self-aware. While this remains a remote possibility, its rapid progress is already profoundly changing our world. Yet the public debate and media hype is still la...

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In this myth-busting guide to AI past and present, one of the world's leading researchers shows why our fears for the future are misplaced.

The ultimate dream of AI is to build machines that are like us: conscious and self-aware. While this remains a remote possibility, its rapid progress is already profoundly changing our world. Yet the public debate and media hype is still largely centred on unlikely prospects from sentient machines to dystopian robot takeovers.

In this lively and clear-headed guide, Michael Wooldridge challenges the prevailing narrative, revealing how these anxieties distract us from both the more immediate risks that this transformative technology poses - from algorithmic bias to fake news- and the true life-changing potential of the field. The Road to Conscious Machines elucidates the discoveries of its greatest pioneers from Alan Turing to Demis Hassabis, and shows us what today's AI researchers actually think and do. AI appeals to fundamental questions about what it means to be human; so too do the failures and limitations of its past.

Michael Wooldridge is a professor of Computer Science and Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, where he is a Fellow of Hertford College. He has been an AI researcher since 1989, and has published more than 400 scientific articles on the subject. From 2014 to 2016, he was President of the European Association for AI, and from 2015 to 2017 he wa...

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Michael Wooldridge is a professor of Computer Science and Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, where he is a Fellow of Hertford College. He has been an AI researcher since 1989, and has published more than 400 scientific articles on the subject. From 2014 to 2016, he was President of the European Association for AI, and from 2015 to 2017 he was President of the International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI). He lives in Oxford with his wife and two children.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
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INTRODUCTION 1
PART ONE: WHAT IS AI?
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CHAPTER 1
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
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INTRODUCTION 1
PART ONE: WHAT IS AI?
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CHAPTER 1
Turing's Electronic Brains 13
PART TWO: HOW DID WE GET HERE?
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CHAPTER 2
The Golden Age 47
CHAPTER 3
Knowledge Is Power 89
CHAPTER 4
Robots and Rationality 125
CHAPTER 5
Deep Breakthrough 167
PART THREE: WHERE ARE WE GOING?
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CHAPTER 6
AI Today 213
CHAPTER 7
How We Imagine Things Might Go Wrong 237
CHAPTER 8
How Things Might Actually Go Wrong 263
CHAPTER 8
Conscious Machines? 303
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GLOSSARY 337
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APPENDIX A: UNDERSTANDING RULES 359
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APPENDIX B: UNDERSTANDING PROLOG 363
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APPENDIX C: UNDERSTANDING BAYE'S THEOREM 365
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APPENDIX D: UNDERSTANDING NEURAL NETS 369
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FURTHER READING 373
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NOTES 377
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INDEX 389
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