02391cam a2200337 i 4500 2192993930 TxAuBib 20250506120000.0 240623s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593831717 hardcover 32.00 0593831713 hardcover 32.00 (OCoLC)1441716643 TxAuBib rda Summerfield, Christopher, author. These strange new minds [BOOK] : how AI learned to talk and what it means / Christopher Summerfield. First United States edition. New York, NY : Viking, 2025. ©2025. ix, 373 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier First published in hardcover in Great Britain by Viking, part of Penguin Random House Group of companies, Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2025. Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-360) and index. Part 1. How did we get here? -- part 2. What is a language model? -- part 3. Do language models think? -- part 4. What should a language model say? -- part 5. What could a language model do? -- part 6. Are we all doomed? "Neuroscientist and AI researcher Christopher Summerfield explores what it really takes to build a brain from scratch. We have entered a world in which disarmingly human-like chatbots, such as ChatGPT, Claude and Bard, appear to be able to talk and reason like us--and are beginning to transform everything we do. But can AI 'think', 'know' and 'understand'? What are its values? Whose biases is it perpetuating? Can it lie and if so, could we tell? Does their arrival threaten our very existence? These Strange New Minds charts the evolution of intelligent talking machines and provides us with the tools to understand how they work and how we can use them. Ultimately, armed with an understanding of AI's mysterious inner workings, we can begin to grapple with the existential question of our age: have we written ourselves out of history or is a technological utopia ahead?". 20250506. Natural language processing (Computer science.) Artificial intelligence. Informational works.