The two books helping China's Xi Jinping understand artificial intelligence

Released in 2015, Domingos's book is an introduction to machine learning and how it relates to everyday life. The answer to all the learning problems of AI technology, argues Domingos, a professor of computer science at the University of Washington, is an ultimate "master" algorithm that gives itself feedback to develop endlessly. He writes: "If it exists, the Master Algorithm can derive all knowledge in the world--past, present, and future--from data. Inventing it would be one of the greatest advances in the history of science."