Why Machines Learn
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Machine learning now helps decide who receives a home loan, whether a scan shows cancer, and whether a defendant is released on bail. It also aids research in genetics, astronomy, and quantum physics. Long before chatbots such as ChatGPT appeared, these systems were quietly reshaping daily life, and the boom in artificial intelligence keeps accelerating.
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The author traces the surprisingly old mathematical foundations of the field, including linear algebra and calculus, which date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He explains how advances in computer science, along with graphics chips originally built for video games, made the modern wave possible. Along the way he asks whether the same principles might underlie human thought. The paperback adds a new section on the transformer design behind large language models and on where the technology may head next.
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