Understanding AI: learning, reasoning and limits

Explore how to frame questions about AI learning, reasoning and intelligence, with reading guides, manuscript samples and clear limits on claims.

Start with a question

• How to evaluate AI reasoning for your own task
• Human and AI intelligence: what should you compare?
• Human vs machine learning: a reader’s guide
• Symbolic vs neural AI: choosing what to read

Read the source books

• How AI Learns — A narrative comparison of learning through human experience and learning through model training.
• Symbols and Neurons — A narrative introduction to the competing ambitions of symbolic and neural AI.
• The Reasoning Machine — A three-lens framework for asking better questions about AI reasoning.
• Your Brain and AI — Explore memory, embodiment and responsibility in a conceptual comparison of human and machine intelligence.