The Emergent Mind

<p><b>As heard on BBC Radio 4 <i>Start the Week</i><br><br>A <i>New Scientist</i> Best Book of the Year<br>A <i>Next Big Ideas Club </i>Book of the Year</b><br><br>‘Excellent’ – <b>Geoffrey Hinton, the ‘godfather of AI’ and Nobel laureate in Physics</b><br>‘An indispensable guide to both ourselves and the coming age of AI’ – <b>Mustafa Suleyman, bestselling co-author of <i>The Coming Wave</i><br><br>Written by experts at the forefront of cognitive science and artificial intelligence, <i>The Emergent Mind</i> is an essential read for anyone captivated by the mysteries of human intelligence or the transformative rise of AI.</b><br><br>Have you ever wondered how our minds work – how we think, feel, and act? How is this different from artificial intelligence? And with AI advancing so rapidly, how are these two worlds beginning to intersect?<br><br>In this groundbreaking book, leading scientists Gaurav Suri and Jay McClelland answer these urgent questions by exploring a powerful idea called ‘emergence’ – the concept that complex systems can form from the interaction of simple parts. By applying this to both the human brain and AI, they reveal how mind-like abilities take shape.<br><br>By using the concept of neural network – the same framework inspired by the human brain that powers today’s AI – this book offers a clear and engaging guide to understanding intelligence. <i>The Emergent Mind </i>offers a fascinating tour of our minds, showing how we make decisions, why we change our minds and how our thoughts are shaped by our experiences. It's a groundbreaking look at how a data-driven neural network can create thoughts, emotions, and ideas – a mind – in both humans and machines.<br><br>‘Fascinating’ – <b>Lisa Feldman Barrett, author of <i>How Emotions Are Made</i></b><br>‘Deeply stimulating and disarmingly accessible’ – <b>Robert Sapolsky, author of <i>Determined</i></b><br>‘Lucid, invaluable’ – <b>Steven Pinker, author of <i>Rationality</i></b></p>