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

Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
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