A Brief History of Intelligence

By Max Bennett,

Book cover of A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs that Made Our Brains

Book description

Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be.

'I found this book amazing' Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow

The entirety of the human brain's 4-billion-year story can be…

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This amazing book provides a clear, thorough, and engaging account of how intelligence arose from primordial soup. Far and away my favorite book of 2024 (and one of my favorites overall).

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