Skip to content
Home/ Approximate Intelligence: Where AI Began, How It Works, What It Means
Approximate Intelligence: Where AI Began, How It Works, What It Means
Save Ask us
Published
Apr 23, 2026
ISBN-13
9781038367563

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

by Vandomme, Roger
No customer reviews yet ISBN 9781038367563

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.

Product details

Pub dateApr 23, 2026
ISBN-101038367565
ISBN-139781038367563
LanguageEnglish
Last updated 2026-05-03 14:28
$16.24 $22.99 29% off
You save $6.75 · list price $22.99
In stock — ships in 24 hours with free tracking
Delivery by Friday, October 23, 2026
Qty
Sign in to Add to Saved list
Free delivery on orders over $35.
15-day returns. Any reason.
Secure checkout. We never store card details.

Readers who bought this also bought

More from Artificial Intelligence - General
See all
Mind Over Machine
Dreyfus, Hubert
$13.57
What to Think about Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence
Brockman, John
$12.77
AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
Bender, Emily M
$22.48
Heuristic Search: Theory and Applications
Edelkamp, Stefan
$104.20
Vances in Intelligent Vehicles
Chen, Yaobin
$144.68
Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition: Theory and Practice
<p>Plan recognition, activity recognition, and intent recognition together combine and unify techniques from user modeling, machine vision, intelligent user interfaces, human/computer interaction, autonomous and multi-agent systems, natural language understanding, and machine learning. </p> <i> <p>Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition</i> explains the crucial role of these techniques in a wide variety of applications including: </p> <ul> <li>personal agent assistants </li> <li>computer and network security </li> <li>opponent modeling in games and simulation systems </li> <li>coordination in robots and software agents </li> <li>web e-commerce and collaborative filtering </li> <li>dialog modeling </li> <li>video surveillance </li> <li>smart homes </li></ul> <p>In this book, follow the history of this research area and witness exciting new developments in the field made possible by improved sensors, increased computational power, and new application areas.</p>
$138.85