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How Smart Machines Think
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The future is here: Self-driving cars are on the streets, an algorithm gives you movie and TV recommendations, IBM's Watson triumphed on Jeopardy over puny human brains, and computer programs can be trained to play Atari games. But how do all these things work?
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