The hunt for electric sheep: the big book of artificial intelligence (AI column)

Over the quarter, I managed the first volume of this book by Sergey Markov, in which he decided to describe where neural networks came from, how they are arranged and where everything goes:) I know many of the stories in the book, but in a shorter version. (Because of this, the story was often perceived more flat and in black and white style.). Interestingly, during my reading in the evenings of this book, she was awarded the Belyaev Prize. 2025 year in the nomination "for the best original popular science/scientific-fiction book in Russian". If you try to describe in fragmentary terms why it is worth reading, For deep immersion in the annals of history: from ancient mechanisms and the first computing devices to computer chess, AlexNet and the “deep learning revolution”.

• For the story of the people behind the neural networks: from McCulloch and Pitts and Rosenblatt perceptron to backprop, Hinton and modern DL Excellent illustrations and book design - in a color edition it all looks great For the presentation of mathematical foundations is clear and without tooth-grabbing formulas For the history of thinking machines, where games acted as the engine of AI (chess)

The book is available in electronic form for free. writerYou can also buy a paper edition from DMK Press.

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