1st Edition
Machina Sapiens How Intelligent Machines Passed the Turing Test
I. Scientists: building thinking machines
1. The alien among us
2. The imitation game
3. Domino effect
4. They called it GPT
5. Unexpected behaviour
II. People: when humans met the machine
6. The first contact
7. Global Turing test
8. For Eliza
9. How to hypnotise a machine
10. The strange case of the algorithm with hallucinations
11. Taking liberties
12. The race 77
13. Fear 83
III. Machines: what they know about us, what we know about them
14. A question from the past
15. Autopsy of an alien
16. The first sparks
17. Pandora’s box
18. Critical mass
Epilogue
Biography
Nello Cristianini is a professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bath and the author of “The Shortcut: Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us” (CRC Press, 2023) and other books and articles dealing with artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and the social impact of AI.
