Artificial Intelligence

Really liked her style of writing - captivating, lucid, cogent and informative. Anyone can follow the book - must have if you want to analyse influence of AI has on the future of mankind.

Meticulous effort from the author. Great book on artificial intelligence. It covers topics like how it all began, why general artificial intelligence is a hard problem to solve, past and current trends in ai, current progress in NLP, vision, speech, self learning robots, self driving cars, etc. Challenges in incorporating general intelligence and common sense in the ai systems and the research done to date in those areas. I liked the book because it's written by a scientist, and the author has shared her experience of nearly 4 decades of working in this field. A must read.

gives a decent overview of the work done in A.I. It was written before ChatGPT release, hence some discussions/predictions might feel outdated.

Just finished reading this book. Language is simple. Explanations are easy to understand. This book has a comprehensive history and the evolution of AI. If really helps the AI practionars like Data Scientists, Software Engineers, Managers and Leaders in AI space and IT overall. Each concept is explained in general language. An easy read if you are into IT. Is it still relevant in 2025? Yes. From the time the book is released the AI world has seen the rise of Generative AI(I am writing this review in 2025). Still the concepts and history helps setting a proper context on th AI

A good book to understand broadly about AI for people of non-AI or CS backgrounds like me. It explains simply about the different algorithms behind its different applications, be it language processing & translation , captioning image, games. Also it tells the story of how these were developed- the basic idea and how they have been improved continuously. Most importantly for me, helped me understand deeply than what's told by media, generally AI hype.

This book provides a clear and insightful perspective on the true capabilities of AI, cutting through the hype created by AI companies. It offers a well-balanced analysis, helping readers distinguish between exaggerated claims and the real potential of AI technology.

I am a book-lover, and have a great love for those books that make a unique contribution in the lives of readers. Here are my observations *** The book gives an impression that it will teach the ABC of AI but it fails *** This is just a so-so book on AI *** It fails to present the subject in a simple or chronological way

Good book everyone should read this book once 👍👍👍

Dies ist ein sehr verständliches und ausgewogenes Buch über künstliche Intelligenz. Melanie Mitchell erklärt in einfachen Worten, was KI ist, wie sie sich historisch entwickelt hat und wo ihre tatsächlichen Grenzen liegen. Besonders gut hat mir gefallen, dass sie weder übertreibt noch Angst schürt, sondern einen ruhigen und realistischen Ton beibehält, der hilft, das Thema besser zu verstehen. Der einzige Nachteil ist, dass das Buch bereits 2019 erschienen ist und deshalb die neuesten Entwicklungen bis 2025, wie große Sprachmodelle oder die breite Nutzung von KI im Alltag, nicht abdeckt. Die grundlegenden Ideen bleiben jedoch vollkommen aktuell und geben das theoretische Fundament, um die heutigen Fortschritte nachvollziehen zu können. Insgesamt halte ich es für eine hervorragende Einführung für alle, die künstliche Intelligenz ohne Übertreibungen verstehen möchten, und ich kann es uneingeschränkt empfehlen.

a very good book. AI from many different angles. the things it can do and those it can't, yet and maybe never. the controversies and the successes. a little dated but thought provoking and much basic information. clear and concise.i only hope she will update it.

I genuinely believe Mitchell's book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding AI beyond the buzzwords. It's not just about how AI works but how it fits into our society and lives. The book deepened my understanding and appreciation of AI's complexities and future trajectory.

I read this as an introduction to AI and focused mainly on the first half of the book. Although the book is partially outdated with the evolution of AI since it was written, especially regarding NLP (Natural Language Processing), it explains a lot of the core concepts which are still totally relevant. Although AI can do extraordinary things, so far it has still not been able to emulate the "common sense" of humans and Mitchell explains really well why this is fundamentally difficult for an AI. I give it five stars because it outlines the history of AI and the fundamental concepts and limitations of AI so clearly.

This book gave me the information that I wanted and more again. I remember in 1980 doing a "computer" course to find out what a floppy disk was. I read this book to find out more about this topic that I kept reading about, AI, and is it really going to make all humans redundant in the near future? The narrative was pitched at the correct level for me, I wanted to understand how AI worked without needing to be a mathematician or programming geek. I can understand the concept of how it works and what its strengths and weaknesses, and future challenges are. My understanding is that Artificial "Intelligence" is perhaps misleading. It isn't really intelligence as would be described in humans but actually sophisticated rules, systems and computing power. The author explained it as more like "idiot savant" which doesn't understand what it is doing, cannot explain it, and sometimes makes decisions based on totally false premise (but still provides the correct answer in "most" cases. She gives some good examples of that. BUT, does this mean AI is not useful. Quite the opposite, it is a very powerful tool for certain uses in well defined situations. There are lots of examples of that in today's world. In summary, a valuable book if you want to lear what all of the hype is. And it is dished up with a little bit of wry humour.