ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

It would have been impossible to write How Smart Machines Think without the hard work of the many researchers and engineers behind the breakthroughs in the following pages, as well as the journalists who have covered many of the more “human” details of their efforts. In some sense, this book was easy for me to write, because these researchers have already done most of the hard work. They've spent thousands of person-years on experiments, research, and documenting their findings. My role in writing this book has primarily been to collate and organize the results of their research into a more digestible form.