Toby Walsh

Author of Machines That Think: The Future of Artificial Intelligence

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Toby Walsh is one of the world's leading experts in Artificial Intelligence (AI). He is a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science and of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and he was recently awarded the 2016 NSW Premier's Prize for Excellence in Engineering and show more Information and Communications Technologies. Walsh has been interviewed several hundred times, appearing on NPR (United States), BBC (United Kingdom), CCTV (China), CNN (United States), RT (Russia), and in publications including the Guardian, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and New Scientist. He also regularly writes for such outlets as American Scientist, New Scientist, and Conversation. show less

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Machines That Think: The Future of Artificial Intelligence (2017) 61 copies, 1 review

2062: The World that AI Made (2018) 37 copies, 1 review

Machines Behaving Badly: The Morality of AI (2022) 28 copies, 1 review

The Shortest History of AI (2025) 28 copies

Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World (2023) 23 copies, 1 review

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2001: 7th International Conference, CP 2001, Paphos, Cyprus, November 26 - December 1, 2001, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in… (2001) 4 copies

It's alive: Wie künstliche Intelligenz unser Leben verändern wird 2 copies

Algorithmic decision theory : 4th International Conference, ADT 2015, Lexington, KY, USA, September 27-30, 2015, Proceedings (2015) 1 copy

It's Alive: Artificial Intelligence From The Logic Piano To Killer Robots 1 copy

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Handbook of Constraint Programming (Foundations of Artificial Intelligence) (2006) — Editor, some editions — 24 copies

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Birthdate: 1964-11-04
Gender: male
Education: Cambridge University (MA)
University of Edinburgh (MSc|PhD)
Occupations: computer scientist
artificial intelligence researcher
Organizations: University of New South Wales
Nationality: England, UK
Birthplace: Rochford, England, UK
Places of residence: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Map Location: England, UK

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fpagan 1,360 reviews

Machines That Think: The Future of Artificial Intelligence by Toby Walsh

Walsh, a practitioner of R&D in artificial intelligence, offers a down-to-earth and up-to-date account of all aspects of the field. Examples of things given special attention are (1) (doubtfulness of) a future tech "singularity", (2) the (mis)use of AI in warfare, and (3) AI's impact on humans' jobs. There are quite a few mentions of threats to privacy, but far less total space is given to privacy than to jobs (an imbalance that is all too common in works on AI). The book's most annoying show more trait, oddly, is its pervasive misspelling of the name Leibniz. show less

Jun 29, 2018

SarahEBear 453 reviews

Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World by Toby Walsh