What Is Intelligence?
Lessons from AI about Evolution, Computing, and Minds
$76.72
- Hardcover
400 pages
- Release Date
7 October 2025
Summary
What Is Intelligence?
Included in the Financial Times’s Best Books of 2025: Technology Included in Bloomberg News’s “The 82 Books That Top Business Leaders Couldn’t Put Down” 2026 PROSE Award Winner: Engineering and Technology
It has come as a shock to some AI researchers that a large neural net that predicts next words seems to produce a system with general intelligence. Yet this is consistent with a long-held view among some neuros…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262049955 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262049953 |
| Author: | Blaise Aguera Y. Arcas |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 7 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 674g |
| Dimensions: | 68mm x 138mm x 199mm |
| Series: | Antikythera |
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Critics Review
“Agüera y Arcas’s book is a mammoth investigation into the computational basis of life and a fascinating exploration of the nature of intelligence…the book is entertaining and thought-provoking.”
–The Financial Times
“What Is Intelligence? is a profound exploration of how mind, matter, and machine intervene.”
–Bloomberg News
“If, one day, universal laws for how both AI and brains learn or think are discovered, a debt (perhaps, even, a unit name) will be owed to What Is Intelligence?”
– Los Angeles Review of Books
Blaise Aguera Y. Arcas
Blaise Agüera y Arcas is a VP/Fellow at Google, where he is the CTO of Technology & Society, and the founder of Paradigms of Intelligence, an organization dedicated to fundamental AI research. He is the author of Who Are We Now? and his research has included work on privacy-preserving machine learning, on-device AI, large language models, and human identity.
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