Quote:At the dawn of an AI-infused Era, a gripping adventure of the mind has brought AI to life from its inception as ancient fantasies of automata to today's thinking, learning, and creating machines. The work is a beacon illuminating AI as both an agent of technological change and a mirror image of humanity's dreams and nightmares. Readers - in particular, decision-makers and stakeholders - will explore how AI could improve life, transform societies, and tackle some of humankind's greatest challenges, while exposing its ethical risks.

Deftly written and technically savvy, DR. Selva talks us through the tangled terrain of AI, and into a future world with this revolutionary new technology. It's not a story about circuits and code. It's a conversation about the world we aspire to create, for a growing community of the educated and the informed, the policymakers, the educators and entrepreneurs, all citizens of a country. As AI becomes not just a key part of our everyday lives, or our laboratory experiments, but an intrinsic feature of everything we do, everything you love will be our essential handbook of big dreams and big ideas - and of people within a community that figuratively and actually have their hearts, minds and heads set on using AI to amplify human capacities and to steer us towards a better, just, more sustainable and more flourishing world.