A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence by Michael Wooldridge

Author:Michael Wooldridge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Flatiron Books

I’m embarrassed to say that, despite the decade-long efforts of a hardworking group of language teachers, I understand very little French: I can make out only the odd isolated phrase in the above text, and without help, I have no sense whatsoever of what the entire text means.

Here is that first paragraph, translated into English by a professional translator:18

For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say “I’m going to sleep.” And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I imagined, was still in my hands, and to blow out the light; I had been thinking all the time, while I was asleep, of what I had just been reading, but my thoughts had run into a channel of their own, until I myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a church, a quartet, the rivalry between François I and Charles V.

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