Machines That Think explores how artificial intelligence helps us understand human intelligence and machines that compose music and write stories, and it asks if AI is really a threat.

Table of Contents

• Series introduction
• Contributors
• Introduction
• In our image: The challenge of creating intelligent machines
• Machines that learn: The mechanics of artificial minds
• Anything you can do: How AI is outsmarting humans
• Matters of life and death: Driverless cars, AI doctors and killer robots
• Into the unknown: How computers may overcome the limitations of the human mind
• Machines that create: The AI world of art and storytelling
• The real risks of AI: Why fears of an apocalypse are overblown
• Will machines inherit the Earth? How superintelligent machines might revolutionize our world
• Conclusion
• Fifty ideas
• Glossary
• Picture credits