Artificial Intelligence

Building Smarter Machines

  • Interest Level: Grade 6 - Grade 12
  • Reading Level: Grade 8

In 2011 a computer named Watson outscored two human competitors on the TV quiz show Jeopardy! and snagged the million-dollar prize. Watson isn’t the only machine keeping up with humans. The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is booming, with drones, robots, and computers handling tasks that once only humans could perform.

Such advances raise challenging questions. Do Watson and other computers really think? Can machines acquire self-awareness? Is AI a promising or a dangerous technology? No machine, not even Watson, yet comes close to matching human intelligence, but many scientists believe it is only a matter of time before we reach this milestone. What will such a future look like?

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978-1-5124-6782-6
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Interest Level Grade 6 - Grade 12
Reading Level Grade 8
Genre Science, Young Adult
Category 5 Kinds of Nonfiction, 5KN: Traditional Nonfiction, STEM, STEM: Technology
Copyright 2018
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Twenty-First Century Books ™
Language English
Number of Pages 104
Publication Date 2017-08-01
Reading Counts! Level 11.6
Text Type Informational/Explanatory
BISACS YAN055040, YAN050100
Dewey 006.3
Dimensions 7 x 9
Lexile 1170
ATOS Reading Level 8.6
Accelerated Reader® Quiz 190013
Accelerated Reader® Points 4.0
Features Author/Illustrator biography, Awards, Bibliography/further reading, Glossary, Index, Reviewed, Sidebars, and Source notes

Author: Stephanie Sammartino McPherson

Stephanie Sammartino McPherson wrote her first children’s story in college. She enjoyed the process so much that she’s never stopped writing. A former teacher and freelance newspaper writer, she has written more than thirty books and numerous magazine stories. Her recent books include Hothouse Earth: The Climate Crisis and the Importance of Carbon Neutrality, winner of the Green Earth Book Award for young adult nonfiction, and Breakthrough: Katalin Karikó and the mRNA Vaccine. Stephanie and her husband, Richard, live in Virginia.

Awards

  • Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2018

Reviews

School Library Journal

“An excellent addition to collections eager to encourage STEM conversations.”—School Library Journal

Booklist

“McPherson’s straightforward, accessible text offers fascinating, thought-provoking, and up-to-date information on a high-interest, very relevant topic to contemporary teens.”—Booklist