How Minds Are Made: Understanding Artificial Intelligence from the Inside Out

A CLEAR, ENGAGING JOURNEY INTO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, BEGINNING WITH THE HUMAN MIND.

How does a machine learn to predict, reason, and plan?

How Minds Are Made explains artificial intelligence from the inside out, guided by one powerful idea. Intelligence depends on building models of the world and using them to anticipate what happens next. You’ll discover how human minds understand the world around them and how machines learn to do things once thought possible only for us.

Audrey Erbert writes about artificial intelligence, the human mind, and the place where human cognition meets machine learning. Drawing on real research and historical sources, she explores how learning happens, how meaning emerges, and what it means to build an artificial mind. Her work brings difficult ideas within reach while staying close to the questions that make intelligence human. How Minds Are Made is her first book.