This book guides readers through the history and development of AI, from its early mathematical beginnings through to the exciting possibilities of its potential future applications.

Robert H. Chen is the author of three books in English on Personal Computers, Liquid Crystal Displays, and Einstein's Relativity, and four books in Chinese on LCDs & Intellectual Property, Patents, Anglo-American Contract Law, and Technology & Copyright Law, and many scholarly articles in physics and the law. He has a Ph.D. in Space Physics and a J.D. in law and is a member of the California Bar. He divides his time between California and Taiwan with his wife and daughter.
Chelsea Chen graduated in physics and computer science from U.C Berkeley and is a software development engineer at a major tech company in Silicon Valley. She presently lives in Northern California and New York City.

1. Computing Hardware. 2. The Integrated Circuit. 3. Software. 4. Open Source Software. 5. Expert Systems. 6. Inverted Decision Tree. 7. Deep Blue. 8. Jeopardy and Miss Debater. 9. The Perceptron. 10. Parameterization. 11. Gradient Descent and Backpropagation. 12. The Cross-Entropy Cost Function. 13. Convolutional Neural Networks. 14. Imagenet and Model Fitting. 15. Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulation. 16. Reinforcement Learning. 17. AlphaGo. 18. Game Theory. 19. Predictive Analytics. 20. Support Vector Machines. 21. Top-Down Speech Recognition. 22. Bottom-Up Speech Recognition. 23. Speech Synthesis. 24. RBMs, GANs, and LFCF. 25. LLMs and GPTs. 26. Massive Parallel Processing and Supercompuers. 27. Quantum Computing. 28. Industrial Robots: Robot Physicians. 29. Autonomous Vehicles. 30. Exoplanets/Exomoon Astronomer. 31. Protein Folding. 32. Intelligence. 33. The AI Singularity.