Machina Sapiens - How Intelligent Machines Passed the Turing Test

Following on from "The Shortcut", Nello Cristianini has authored another brilliant book, explaining the ideas behind a technology destined to change the world. If the worst fear is that of the unknown, the cure is knowledge

List of contents

Prologue
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 man met the machine
6. 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
13. Fear
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
Glossary
Bibliography

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Nello Cristianini, Cristianini Nello
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032949116
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3294911-6
• No. of pages: 152
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; History, Philosophy, Electrical Engineering, History of Science, algorithms and data structures, Algorithms & data structures, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Legal aspects of IT, Automatic control engineering, Computational Linguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, COMPUTERS / Data Science / Machine Learning, COMPUTERS / Data Science / Neural Networks, Computational and corpus linguistics, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects, Neural networks and fuzzy systems, Neural networks & fuzzy systems