We are please to share that Sylvain LIEGE has launched his new book:

AI: The Hunt for Intelligence – Beyond the Hype and Fear

Everyone says AI is intelligent. This book politely disagrees — and shows why that’s actually the best news you’ll hear all year.

In The Hunt for Intelligence, consultant and PhD-level computer scientist Sylvain Liège takes you on a clear-eyed, hype-free journey through how modern AI really works — no maths degree required.

Across 17 clear chapters you will discover, step by step:

  • Where the dream of artificial beings began — from ancient myths (Talos, Golem) to today’s robots
  • How the human brain inspired artificial neural networks
  • What the mathematics behind AI is really doing (explained simply, never superficially)
  • How machines actually learn, improve, and make predictions
  • The inner workings of deep learning, Large Language Models, and generative AI
  • How systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok really produce their outputs
  • Why Large Language Models are essentially extremely expensive autocomplete on steroids
  • A simple “edible food smell detector” that exposes every major weakness of current AI still has (overfitting, bias, hallucinations…)
  • Why the gap between appearing intelligent and being intelligent remains enormous
  • Why true AGI is much further away than the headlines claim — and why that’s perfectly okay
  • Current limits, promising research directions, and realistic timelines
  • A full ethics chapter written entirely by an AI system — so you can judge its capabilities for yourself

Written entirely by a human (except one chapter, on purpose), this is the rare AI book that treats you like an adult: zero doom, zero blind optimism, just clarity and rigour.

If you lead teams, run a business, or simply want to understand what today’s AI can and cannot do, this book gives you the solid foundation you need to use it profitably — without falling for the headlines.

“No hype. No fear. Just the truth about intelligence — human and artificial.”

Finally, an AI book that treats readers like adults.

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