Fundamental Intelligence, Volume I

Fundamental Intelligence Volume I, paints a cross-disciplinary big picture of the foundations and fundamentals of AI, machine learning and cognitive science for a public audience. Takes you from history all the way to the dynamics of the cutting edge. Aims to give you massive depth and insight lacking from other texts on the subject. It uniquely puts it all together, and explains that the word intelligence has only been used symbolically. Thus, the title of this volume is "AI as a Label"! It argues how the existing foundations are not satisfying if we are serious about intelligence and proposes a fundamental rethinking of natural and artificial intelligence.

It's written so that anyone could follow. It gives you the insights that you'd otherwise have to get from knowing a lot of math, reading thousands of academic papers, and thinking about them deeply. The content is both broad and deep and should appeal to both the very beginner and the very advanced mind in AI. You don't learn how to write AI programs from this book. There are plenty of other resources for that. Instead, you may learn what to make of things, how to think of them differently, and gain the perspective needed to be a better judge of new ideas.