This book bills itself as a very broad very general introduction to some of the key topics in artificial intelligence. It states from the outset that book purporting to be cutting edge and up-to-date must, necessarily, be obsolete by the time it hits the shelf. This book mostly delivers on the premise; I think if I were to read anything further on this topic I would have somewhat of a foundation to start from. However, it was dry at times and, perhaps due to its purposefully limited scope, seemed to abandon a topic as soon as it became really interesting.