Idiot or Genius?

Artificial intelligence has firmly entered our lives, settling in an incredibly vast field: from space stations to home computers. With its development come our main futuristic hopes and fears. It seems that it will determine what our future will look like. Melanie Mitchell's book, on one hand, brings together all the main developments in this direction available today. In other words, it explains what artificial intelligence can already do, what it cannot do, and what it is currently learning. On the other hand, the book reviews the main futuristic predictions, attempting to imagine what our world will be like in the foreseeable future, and most importantly, it seeks to answer the question of whether a machine endowed with artificial intelligence is a completely new stage in the evolution of humanity, an evolution that will henceforth proceed along a technological rather than a biological path.