This book provides a simple introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI). It explains what it is, how it works and how it's used in the real world to do all sorts of wonderful things. For example, powering Intelligent personal assistants such as Amazon's Alexa, undertaking facial recognition and making decisions about who to hire and fire. Not to mention all those brilliant robots on production lines and in warehouses, and chatbots that can answer all your customer queries for you. Written in an easy going and non-technical style Understanding Artificial Intelligence provides the perfect introduction to this fascinating subject that everyone should know something about.