Book: Introducing Artificial Intelligence

The book Introducing Artificial Intelligence by Henry Brighton and Howard Selina is a very accessible introduction to the history and some key concepts of Artificial Intelligence.

Here are some of the topics covered:

• Strong AI vs Weak AI
• Psychology, Philosophy and Cognition
• Computation and Turing Machines
• Intelligence, Thought and the Chinese Room argument
• Ontology and the Cyc project
• Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Robotics

This is a small book and clearly the emphasis is introductory breadth and not depth. Like other books in the series, this one his very short and features illustrations on every page, accompanied by very short passages on text. The conversational style makes it well suitable for interested laypeople.