Artificial intelligence : a beginner's guide / Blay Whitby.

1: What is AI?
What AI is
What AI is not
AI methods and tools
What is the ultimate goal of AI?
The Turing test
Is the Turing test the ultimate goal of AI?
2: AI at work
Some glittering successes
Searching for solutions
Computer champions
The power of knowledge
Is knowledge the key to intelligence?
Diamonds in the data
3: AI and biology
Inspiration from brains
What can artificial neural nets do?
Unsupervised learning
Are artificial neural nets the key to intelligence?
Learning from evolution-genetic algorithms
A (literary) example
Why not just evolve intelligence?
4: Some challenges
Factionalism
What does the robot need to know?
Trapped in the Chinese room?
What machines can't do
Some promises
5: AI diffuses
The "yes,...but question"
Cognitive science
What about the Turing test?
What about consciousness?
What's intelligence then?
6: Present and future trends
The social effects of AI
The social effects of AI technology
Will robots rule the world?
AI and art
The future
What's going on now?
Integration
Artificial agents
Virtual girlfriends and artificial companions.