Freed, S. (2019). AI and Human Thought and Emotion. CRC Press

Abstract

e Sam Freed’s AI and Human Thought and Emotion came into print in 2019, OpenAI had
already launched GPT-1 and GPT-2 following the Google Brain team’s publication of “Attention
Is All You Need” (2017). These releases heralded the Transformer era where large-scale language
models such as GPT continue to achieve breakthroughs in natural language processing technologies.
Sam Freed’s book, however, commences with a provocative statement that the development of AI
technology is not as trail-blazing as it may appear, due to the absence of conceptual revolution.
Freed pinpoints that the concept of neural networks, which renders the AI unsupervised deep
learning possible, can indeed date back to the 1940s and 1950s, if not earlier.