A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
The Basics of Human Brain Anatomy
Our Evolutionary Lineage

Introduction
1: The World Before Brains

Breakthrough #1: Steering and the First Bilaterians
2: The Birth of Good and Bad
3: The Origin of Emotion
4: Associating, Predicting, and the Dawn of Learning

Breakthrough #2: Reinforcing and the First Vertebrates
5: The Cambrian Explosion
6: The Evolution of Temporal Difference Learning
7: The Problems of Pattern Recognition
8: Why Life Got Curious
9: The First Model of the World

Breakthrough #3: Simulating and the First Mammals
10: The Neural Dark Ages
11: Generative Models and the Neocortical Mystery
12: Mice in the Imaginarium
13: Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
14: The Secret to Dishwashing Robots

Breakthrough #4: Mentalizing and the First Primates
15: The Arms Race for Political Savvy
16: How to Model Other Minds
17: Monkey Hammers and Self-Driving Cars
18: Why Rats Can’t Go Grocery Shopping

Breakthrough #5: Speaking and the First Humans
19: The Search for Human Uniqueness
20: Language in the Brain
21: The Perfect Storm
22: ChatGPT and the Window into the Mind
Conclusion: The Sixth Breakthrough

Acknowledgments
Glossary
Bibliography
Notes
Index
About the Author
Praise for A Brief History of Intelligence
Copyright
About the Publisher