Description: A Radically Different History of AI Spanning Four Centuries of Research on Human Intelligence and Behavior
Review Quotes: In The Descent of Artificial Intelligence, Kevin Padraic Donnelly recovers a deep history of AI, going beyond the usual emphasis on computers to focus on the ways our shifting perceptions of intelligence have, over several centuries, led some people to believe it can be modeled in ways that technology can handle. The result is an ambitious and highly readable account that puts the ongoing debates about AI in a new light.--Chris Renwick, University of York