“Pickover’s illustrated history explores, in one-page entries, humans’ fascination with artificial intelligence, starting in 1300 B.C. and continuing through the present day … the book provides a wide-ranging and riveting evocation of AI over time.” —Helen Phillips, author of The Need

Clifford A. Pickover has published more than 50 books, translated into a dozen languages, on topics ranging from science and mathematics to religion, art, and history. He received his PhD degree from Yale University, has been granted more than 800 US patents, and has more than 180,000 X (formerly Twitter) followers. For many years, he was an IBM researcher and inventor and editor-in-chief of the IBM Journal of Research and Development. He is the author of many other books including Death and the Afterlife, The Physics Book, and The Math Book, which won the Neumann Prize.