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The History of Artificial Intelligence: For Kids!
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Long before smartphones and chatbots, people were already dreaming of machines that could think - from bronze giants in ancient Greek myths to a clay golem brought to life with magic words. This book traces that dream through mechanical calculators, secret codebreakers, room-sized computers, hopeful predictions, painful setbacks, and finally the breakthroughs that put AI into pockets, cars, and classrooms around the world.
Across ten chapters, readers follow the real scientists and real ideas behind artificial intelligence: Alan Turing's famous question about whether a machine could think, the summer conference where AI got its name, the AI winters when the whole field nearly gave up, and the deep learning revolution that changed everything. The final chapters look honestly at today's AI chatbots and image generators - what they can do, where they get things wrong, and the hard questions about fairness, privacy, and safety that come with them - before asking where this technology might be headed next.
Written for curious young readers, this is a clear, honest guide to one of the most important stories in modern science - not a sales pitch, but a real history, told straight.
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