克里斯托弗·萨默菲尔德：这些奇怪的新思维：人工智能如何学会说话以及这意味着什么 微软人工智能CEO

These Strange New Minds：How to Understand AI

基本信息

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:Viking

ISBN:9780241694664

Published:6 Mar 2025

Weight:462g

Dimensions:233 x 151 x 31 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这本书引人入胜、见解深刻、全景式地调查了我们身处何方、为何来到这里以及这意味着什么。这是一本关于当今重要技术的精彩指南，微软人工智能 CEO兼 DeepMind 联合创始人 Mustafa Suleyman 著

“对于着迷于人工智能未来的读者来说，这本书是一场令人大开眼界的探索，让我们看到了一场正在眼前展开的革命”《纽约书评》

数字技术的惊人进步为我们带来了一波令人信服的类人人工智能系统。ChatGPT、Claude 和 Gemini 等聊天机器人将全世界所有专家的知识放在我们的指尖，并能生成有意义的句子、方程式和计算机代码。

这项新技术的发展一定会颠覆我们的经济，挑战我们的民主，并以不可预测的方式重塑社会。我们可以期待这些人工智能系统很快能代表用户做出自主决策，对我们所做的一切产生变革性影响。了解它们的工作原理至关重要。

人工智能系统能够“思考”、“知道”和“理解”吗？它们会操纵或欺骗你吗？如果会，它们会让你做什么？它们终将代表谁的利益？它们什么时候才能超越语言，在现实世界中为自己采取行动？

为了回答这些问题，神经科学家和人工智能研究员克里斯托弗·萨默菲尔德解释了这些奇怪的新思维是如何工作的。他绘制了人工智能的演变过程，从 17 世纪对思考机器的早期想法到今天庞大的深度神经网络。由此产生的书是对这项激进新技术容易理解、崭新和有说服力的探索。

终于，在了解了人工智能神秘的内部运作后，我们可以开始努力解决我们这个时代的存在问题：我们能否期待一个技术乌托邦，还是我们正在将自己从历史中抹去？

“作为计算神经科学和人工智能社会影响领域的知名人物，克里斯托弗·萨默菲尔德完全有能力探索这些与我们如此相似又如此不同的机器的意义和影响” Brian，《Algorithms to Live by》合著者

“人工智能专家克里斯·萨默菲尔德带我们参观了这项令人惊叹的新技术，并帮助我们理解它引发的问题。您可能会对法学硕士感到震惊、兴奋或漠不关心，但您应该在决定之前阅读克里斯的书” Mike Woolridge，《通往意识机器之路》的作者

An engaging, insightful and panoramic survey of where we are, why we got here and what it means. A brilliant guide to the most important technology of our times' Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI & Cofounder of DeepMind

'For readers fascinated by the future of AI, this book is an eye-opening exploration of a revolution unfolding before our eyes' New York Journal of Books

Stunning advances in digital technology have given us a new wave of disarmingly human-like AI systems. Chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini put the knowledge of all the world's experts at our fingertips, and can generate meaningful sentences, equations and computer code.

The march of this new technology is set to upturn our economies, challenge our democracies, and refashion society in unpredictable ways. We can expect these AI systems to soon be making autonomous decisions on the user's behalf, with transformative impact on everything we do. It is vital we understand how they work.

Can AI systems 'think', 'know' and 'understand'? Could they manipulate or deceive you, and if so, what might they make you do? Whose interests do they ultimately represent? And when will they be able to move beyond words and take actions for themselves in the real world?

To answer these questions, neuroscientist and AI researcher Christopher Summerfield explains how these strange new minds work. He charts the evolution of AI, from the earliest inklings about thinking machines in the seventeenth century to today's gargantuan deep neural networks. The resulting book is the most accessible, up-to-date and authoritative exploration of this radical new technology.

Ultimately, armed with an understanding of AI's mysterious inner workings, we can begin to grapple with the existential question of our age: can we look forward to a technological utopia, or are we in the process of writing ourselves out of history?

'As a leading authority in both computational neuroscience and the social impacts of AI, Christopher Summerfield is perfectly situated to explore the meaning and implications of these machines that are so uncannily like - and unlike - ourselves' Brian, co-author of Algorithms to Live by

'AI expert Chris Summerfield takes us on a tour of this astonishing new technology, and helps us to understand the issues it raises. You might choose to be alarmed, excited, or indifferent to LLMs, but you should read Chris's book before you decide' Mike Woolridge, author of The Road to Conscious Machines

作者简介

Christopher Summerfield 一方面涉足神经科学领域——作为牛津大学认知神经科学的教授研究人类大脑——另一方面涉足人工智能研究，担任英国人工智能安全研究所的研究主任。此前，他在开创性的 DeepMind 建立了智能系统。他曾获得多项奖项，包括 2015 年享有盛誉的认知神经科学学会青年研究员奖。他经常受邀在世界各地发表主题演讲。克里斯托弗发表了 100 多篇同行评议文章、评论和书籍章节，他的学术著作《自然通用智能：理解大脑如何帮助我们构建人工智能》广受好评。这是他初本面向大众的书籍。

Christopher Summerfield has one foot in the field neuroscience – studying the brains of humans, as Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford – and the other in AI research, as Research Director at the UK AI Safety Institute. Previously, he built intelligent systems at the pioneering DeepMind. He has won several awards, including the prestigious Cognitive Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award in 2015. He is regularly invited to give keynote talks across the world. Christopher has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, reviews, and book chapters and his academic book, Natural General Intelligence: How Understanding the Brain Can Help Us Build AI, was widely acclaimed. This is his first book for a general readership.