Title: Mitä Tekoäly on?
Author: Hannu Toivonen
Narrator: Ariel Ariel Neulaniemi
Publisher: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Teos
Isbn: 9789523634763
Language: Finnish
Format:Audiobook
Length: 3h 58min
First Published: 2023
Read and review: 2025
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐ (3)
Mitä tekoäly on? 100 kysymystä ja vastausta (What is Artificial Intelligence? 100 Questions and Answers) by Hannu Toivonen is an easily approachable book about AI.
The book - as the title says - consists of 100 questions about AI which Toivonen (Professor of Computer Science) gives his answers to.
Despite the professor's title, the book is approachable, as previously mentioned – and it doesn’t contain any mathematics or detailed descriptions of complex algorithms.
The book is more of a philosophical kind - wondering and pondering about how AI is changing and going to change the world. And how that change will affect us humans.
However the book is not just all about philosophical thinking. The book explains some of the technical principles behind artificial intelligence also. Such as how AI relies on human-provided instructions, general problem-solving algorithms, and machine learning. The bookdiscusses how machine learning identifies patterns in data and creates models that help AI make predictions. AI doesn't "learn" in the same way humans do, but instead, it builds models and makes decisions based on the given data. The book also covers neural networks, which are made up of simple components but can perform complex tasks, such as image recognition, when working together. Additionally, reinforcement learning and decision trees are presented as examples of how AI can evolve and adjust its behavior based on experience.