‘Intelligence’ and ‘artificial’ are two words that are everywhere today, and for that precise reason are less and less understood. Between those promising imminent revolutions and those predicting catastrophes, telling what matters apart from what is mere chatter becomes difficult.

This book offers a sober, well-documented alternative to that noise: an orderly journey, historical even before technological, which starts not with machines, but with us. Because it is impossible to judge a copy without knowing the original: human intelligence and creativity.

Neither blind faith nor dogmatic rejection. Not a substitute for the human mind, but a tool capable of enhancing it: the model is not replacement, but the centaur. Human and machine together, each bringing what the other lacks.

A accessible work of popular science for anyone who wants to gain a grounded understanding of what is happening: with no shortcuts, no jargon, and no need for prior technical expertise.