Sovrumano. Oltre i limiti della nostra intelligenza

The question today has changed: it is no longer whether machines can be intelligent, but whether they can equal and surpass us. After La scorciatoia (The Shortcut) and Machina sapiens, the third episode of the compelling trilogy on the new era of thinking machines. Artificial intelligence is now reaching human performance levels in many of the cognitive tasks in which we excel. But what will happen next? Are we entering an era in which machines will be able to understand things that are incomprehensible to us? No intelligence is unlimited, not even ours, and so we ask ourselves: what lies beyond human limits? But while we invest huge amounts of capital in building a machine capable of competing with us, we refuse to accept that this is possible. We both desire and fear that encounter. In this new, visionary book by Nello Cristianini, we will see artificial intelligences successfully pass extremely difficult exams, right up to the final test, in which they will tackle areas that are inaccessible even to our best experts. Will we be able to understand what lies beyond the limits of our intelligence?