1st Edition

The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence

By Tony Prescott Copyright 2025
134 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

134 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

134 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

What is Artificial Intelligence? How will AI impact society? Is AI more powerful than human intelligence? The Psychology of AI explores all aspects of the psychology–AI relationship, asking how closely AI can resemble humans, and whether this means they could have some form of self-awareness. It considers how AI systems have been modelled on human intelligence and the similarities between... Read more

1. Introduction

2. What is intelligence?

3. Brains and computers

4. The building blocks of intelligence

5. Learning in Neural networks

6. Towards artificial general intelligence

7. Living with artificial intelligence

Further reading

Biography

Tony Prescott is Professor of Cognitive Robotics at the University of Sheffield, UK. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He is the lead editor of Living Machines: A Handbook of Research in Biomimetics and Biohybrid Systems (OUP, 2018) and Scholarpedia of Touch (Springer, 2017). He has authored over two hundred articles and conference papers in the areas of psychology, computational neuroscience, robotics, and machine learning.