A guide to understanding AI's weirdness

Welcome to AI book reviews, a series of posts that explore the latest literature on artificial intelligence. These days, it can be very hard to determine where to draw the boundaries around artificial intelligence. What it can and can't do is often not very clear, as well as where it's future is headed. In fact, there's also a lot of confusion surrounding what AI really is. Marketing departments have a tendency to somehow fit AI in their messaging and rebrand old products as "AI and machine learning."