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"Artificial intelligence is here to stay. What are its achievements, its prospects, its pitfalls and misdirected initiatives--and how might these be remedied and overcome? This lucid and deeply informed account, from a critical but sympathetic perspective, is a valuable guide to developments that will surely have a major impact on the social order and intellectual culture."
--Noam Chomsky

"When I was a child I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey and then read everything I could about A.I. All the smart people said it was twenty years away. Twenty years later I was an adult and the smart people said that A.I. was twenty years away. Twenty years after that we passed 2001 and the smart people said it was about twenty years away. Yup, it's getting better and better, but it still ain't HAL. It can tag photos pretty good but on understanding stories my son passed all the A.I. before he went to his stupid preschool. Now is the time to listen to smarter people: in Rebooting AI, Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis do a great job separating truth from bullshit to understand why we might not have real A.I. in twenty years and what we can do to get way closer."
--Penn Jillette, Emmy-winning magician and actor and New York Times best-belling author

"A must-read for anyone who cares about the future of artificial intelligence, filled with masterful storytelling and clear and easy-to-digest examples. Simultaneously puncturing hype and plotting a new course towards toward truly successful AI, Rebooting AI offers the first rational look at what AI can and can't do, and what it will take to build AI that we can genuinely trust. And it does it in a way that engages the reader and ultimately celebrates both what AI has accomplished and the strengths and power of the human mind."
--Annie Duke, best-selling author of Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

Two leaders in the field offer a compelling analysis of the current state of the art and reveal the steps we must take to achieve a truly robust AI.

Despite the hype surrounding AI, creating an intelligence that rivals or exceeds human levels is far more complicated than we are led to believe. Professors Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis have spent their careers at the forefront of AI research and have witnessed some of the greatest milestones in the field, but they argue that a computer winning in games like Jeopardy and go does not signal that we are on the doorstep of fully autonomous cars or superintelligent machines. The achievements in the field thus far have occurred in closed systems with fixed sets of rules. These approaches are too narrow to achieve genuine intelligence. The world we live in is wildly complex and open-ended. How can we bridge this gap? What will the consequences be when we do? Marcus and Davis show us what we need to first accomplish before we get there and argue that if we are wise along the way, we won't need to worry about a future of machine overlords. If we heed their advice, humanity can create an AI that we can trust in our homes, our cars, and our doctor's offices.

Rebooting AI provides a lucid, clear-eyed assessment of the current science and offers an inspiring vision of what we can achieve and how AI can make our lives better.