About this item
Human history has always been shaped by technology, but AI is like no technology that has come before it. Unlike the wheel, combustion engines, or electricity, AI does the thing that humans do best: think. While AI hasn't reproduced the marvelously complex human brain, it has been able to accomplish astonishing things. AI has defeated our players at games like chess, Go, and Jeopardy!. It's learned to recognize objects and speech. It can create art and music. It's even allowed grieving people to feel as though they were talking with their dead loved ones.. On the flip side, it's put innocent people in jail, manipulated the emotions of social media users, and tricked people into believing untrue things.. In this non-fiction book for teens, acclaimed author and teacher Martha Brockenbrough guides readers through the development of this world-changing technology, exploring how AI has touched every corner of our world, including education, healthcare, work, politics, war, international relations, and even romance.
About the Author
Martha Brockenbrough is the author of many books for young readers: - Frank & The Bad Surprise (Levine Querido) - Into the Bloodred Woods (Scholastic) - I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story (Little, Brown) - This Old Dog (Levine Querido) - Unpresidented: a biography of Donald Trump (Feiwel & Friends) - Cheerful Chick (Scholastic) - Alexander Hamilton: Revolutionary (Feiwel & Friends) - Love, Santa (Scholastic) - Back to School with Bigfoot & Bigfoot Wants a Little Brother (Scholastic) - The Game of Love and Death (Scholastic) - Shark Week (Feiwel & Friends) - Finding Bigfoot (Feiwel & Friends) - The Dinosaur Tooth Fairy (Scholastic) - Devine Intervention (Scholastic) She teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts and founded National Grammar Day. She has worked as a newspaper reporter, a high school teacher, and as editor of MSN.com.
