Do you really want to understand how artificial intelligence works?
This book explains it to you clearly, rigorously and without the need to know programming or mathematics.
Designed for students, teachers and enthusiasts, this text is a practical and comprehensive guide that takes you through the world of AI - from theory to practice, from neural networks to generative models such as ChatGPT, to ethical, educational and social issues.
What makes this book unique:
Technical but accessible explanations: complex concepts made clear with concrete examples, intuitive analogies and simple but never trivial language.
No technical skills required: you don't need to know programming or advanced mathematics.
Rigorous but inclusive: each chapter is designed for those who want to seriously understand how AI works, even from scratch.
Learning by doing: with questions, food for thought, mini-exercises, and even step-by-step guided Python code for those who want to experiment.
Main contents:
What AI really is and how it has evolved
How neural networks, Transformers and language models work
The role of data, algorithms and hardware
Python as an AI language, explained from the ground up
Ethics, work, schooling, regulation: how AI changes our world
For teachers:
Tools to introduce AI in the classroom, in every discipline.
Ideas for workshops, interdisciplinary projects and PCTOs.