Viking pre-empts THESE STRANGE NEW MINDS
Connor Brown at Viking UK and Terezia Cicel at Viking US have pre-empted Christopher Summerfield’s These Strange New Minds: How to Understand AI, which will be published in hardback in autumn 2024.
A new wave of disarmingly human-like chatbots, such as ChatGPT, Claude and Bard, appear to be able to talk and reason like us – and are beginning to transform everything we do. It is vital we understand how they work. Can AI ‘think’, ‘know’ and ‘understand’? What are its values? Whose biases is it perpetuating? Can it lie and if so, could we tell? To answer these questions, neuroscientist and AI researcher Christopher Summerfield charts the evolution of AI, from its earliest origins in the 17th century to today’s Large Language Models, new tools that put the knowledge of all the world’s experts at your fingertips.