The quest for artificial intelligence: a history of ideas and achievements
The book follows a roughly chronological approach, with some backing and filling. My story may have left out some actors and events, but I hope it is reasonably representative of AI’s main ideas, controversies, successes, and limitations. I focus more on the ideas and their realizations than on the personalities involved. I believe that to appreciate AI’s history, one has to understand, at least in lay terms, something about how AI programs actually work.