An Approximate Intelligence: Where AI Began, How It Works, What It Means - Paperback

by Roger Vandomme (Author)

Artificial intelligence is everywhere. In our phones, our medical diagnoses, our hiring decisions, our shopping recommendations. Yet few people truly understand what it is - and what it isn't.

This book is neither a technical manual nor a doomsday essay. It's an invitation to finally understand what lies behind the algorithms. No formulas, no jargon, but no oversimplification either.

You will discover:
How AI transforms uncertainty into probabilities to help us make better decisions
Why it doesn't "think" but calculates - and why that changes everything
What neural networks, deep learning, and large language models actually do
How to tell credible promises from media hype
The ethical questions every citizen and leader should be asking

From Pascal and Fermat to ChatGPT, this book traces four centuries of probability theory and artificial intelligence. It is written for executives, professionals, students, and curious minds who want to understand before they use, and decide with full knowledge of the facts.

AI is neither magic nor threat. It's a powerful tool - if you know what it actually does.