Nello Cristianini is a professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bath and the author of “The Shortcut: Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us” (CRC Press, 2023) and other books and articles dealing with artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and the social impact of AI.

• I. Scientists: building thinking machines 1. The alien among us 2. The imitation game 3. Domino effect 4. They called it GPT 5. Unexpected behaviour II. People: when humans met the machine 6. The first contact 7. Global Turing test 8. For Eliza 9. How to hypnotise a machine 10. The strange case of the algorithm with hallucinations 11. Taking liberties 12. The race 7713. Fear 83III. Machines: what they know about us, what we know about them 14. A question from the past 15. Autopsy of an alien 16. The first sparks 17. Pandora’s box 18. Critical mass Epilogue

Nello Cristianini is a professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bath and the author of “The Shortcut: Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us” (CRC Press, 2023) and other books and articles dealing with artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and the social impact of AI.

• I. Scientists: building thinking machines 1. The alien among us 2. The imitation game 3. Domino effect 4. They called it GPT 5. Unexpected behaviour II. People: when humans met the machine 6. The first contact 7. Global Turing test 8. For Eliza 9. How to hypnotise a machine 10. The strange case of the algorithm with hallucinations 11. Taking liberties 12. The race 7713. Fear 83III. Machines: what they know about us, what we know about them 14. A question from the past 15. Autopsy of an alien 16. The first sparks 17. Pandora’s box 18. Critical mass Epilogue

Nello Cristianini is a professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bath and the author of “The Shortcut: Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us” (CRC Press, 2023) and other books and articles dealing with artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and the social impact of AI.

• I. Scientists: building thinking machines 1. The alien among us 2. The imitation game 3. Domino effect 4. They called it GPT 5. Unexpected behaviour II. People: when humans met the machine 6. The first contact 7. Global Turing test 8. For Eliza 9. How to hypnotise a machine 10. The strange case of the algorithm with hallucinations 11. Taking liberties 12. The race 7713. Fear 83III. Machines: what they know about us, what we know about them 14. A question from the past 15. Autopsy of an alien 16. The first sparks 17. Pandora’s box 18. Critical mass Epilogue