A great breakdown of the current state of AI, detailing its strengths and weaknesses.

The author continuously highlights what we do well as humans and where AI falls short, even when competing against children. She covers AI strengths by discussing programs like AlphaGo and IBM Watson. She also summarizes the recent rise in basic AI services, beginning in the mid-2000’s with translation, auto-subtitles, virtual assistants, facial recognition in pictures, up to today’s standard for self-driving vehicles.

It’s very dry and overly technical in some chapters, especially the first few. I almost tapped out during her explanation of multi-layered neural networks, backpropagation, and perceptrons. But it gets better the further you go and does an excellent job breaking down the differences between specific and general intelligence.