Louwerse reveals how surprisingly similar the challenge is of peering into a human mind and that of peering into an artificial mind, and thus why cognitive psychology has much to offer the field of AI.
—Max S. Bennett, author of A Brief History of Intelligence
This is a very accessible and readable book for anyone interested in AI. You will not need a technical background – the book attacks the situation by taking more of a psychological approach by applying a lot of common sense. […] The author’s way of providing real world simple examples makes it easy to relate to the subject matter often by considering everyday life.’
Kevin Warwick, professor at Coventry and Reading Universities, UK, and author of six popular science books on AI and cybernetics.
This book explains the tight relationship between AI and cognitive psychology since the beginning of AI 70 years ago. Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson have had a gift for explaining science to the people. Ray Kurtzweil and Yuval Noah Harari have been helping the public understand the past and future of AI. Max Louwerse has written a very engaging and readable book for the public to understand how psychological science can explain many of the mysteries of AI.
—Art Graesser, professor at the University of Memphis, USA and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK
Prof. Louwerse’s book tackles a rare but critical task: bridging rapidly evolving AI models with what we know about the human mind. The book takes this challenge on in the boldest way, by considering the fullest range of our mental faculties, from our perceptions to our more complex processes of thinking and reasoning.
—Rick Dale, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Max Louwerse understands what artificial intelligence is, how it relates to human intelligence and can explain it in a way that you can understand. So if you are interested in machine intelligence and how it relates to humans, this is the book for you.
—Marc Brysbaert, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Ghent University
In his latest book, “Understanding Artificial Minds through Human Minds: The Psychology of AI”, Louwerse masterfully bridges the world of psychology and artificial intelligence at an insightful and thought-provoking level. Drawing on his deep expertise and interdisciplinary approach, he unravels the complexity of human cognition and explores how these principles can support the development of AI systems. This book not only offers a compelling narrative for academics, but is also an accessible and engaging text for anyone curious about the profound interaction between mind and machine. It is essential reading for understanding the future of technology and its human roots.
–Emile Aarts, Professor Computer Science, Tilburg University
Louwerse outlines how psychology and artificial intelligence mutually advance one another. It describes the evolution from early symbolic AI to the current neural network/machine learning revolution in a way that is understandable to lay readers, without falling into popular generalizations. This is a book for anyone who reads about AI in the news and wants to understand how it actually works—and whether we really need to be afraid that AI will take over the world.
–Niels Taatgen, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen
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