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felher's review
3.0
Quite comprehensive treatise on Artificial Intelligence, covering its history, multiple branches, current applications, and future perspectives. However, I didn't find it especially enjoyable for one reason: Except for the last chapter, I think the intellectual depth of the discussions varied broadly. For example, given its intended broad audience, the book would not delve into details over specific areas of AI or specific algorithm families; only a general description is given. However, when later comparing several areas or algorithms, I struggled to keep up with the arguments because of the weak foundation on the individual topics. I have some expertise in several areas of AI but, sometimes within a single section of the book, I often found a very basic introduction followed by an overly-complicated analysis that seemed like it required a much stronger background that the one provided. A way to work around this problem could be by providing helpful figures (or at least key analogies) that describe the ideas better, instead of making any diagram, equation, pseudo algorithm, or any other technical representation taboo.
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