The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

Recommended by Bill Gates

A thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own

In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask. In The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos lifts the veil to give us a peek inside the learning machines that power Google, Amazon, and your smartphone. He assembles a blueprint for the future universal learner—the Master Algorithm—and discusses what it will mean for business, science, and society. If data-ism is today's philosophy, this book is its bible.

ISBN-13: 9780465094271

Media Type: Paperback(First Trade Paper Edition)

Publisher: Basic Books

Publication Date: 02-13-2018

Pages: 352

Product Dimensions: 5.45(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.20(d)

Pedro Domingos is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Washington. He is a winner of the SIGKDD Innovation Award, the highest honor in data science. A fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, he lives near Seattle.

Table of Contents

1. The Machine Learning Revolution
2. The Master Algorithm
3. Hume's Problem of Induction
4. How Does Your Brain Learn?
5. Evolution: Nature's Learning Algorithm
6. In the Church of the Reverend Bayes
7. You Are What You Resemble
8. Learning Without a Teacher
9. The Pieces of the Puzzle Fall into Place
10. This Is the World on Machine Learning