Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry Into the History and Prospects of Artificial IntelligencePamela McCorduck first went among the artificial intelligentsia when the field was fresh and new, and asked the scientists engaged in it what they were doing and why. She saw artificial intelligence as the scientific apotheosis of one of the most enduring, glorious, often amusing, and sometimes alarming, traditions of human culture: the endless fascination with artifacts that think. Machines Who Think was translated into many languages, became an international cult classic, and stayed in print for nearly twenty years. Now, Machines Who Think is back, along with an extended addition that brings the field up to date in the last quarter century, including its scientific and its public faces. McCorduck shows how, from a slightly dubious fringe science, artificial intelligence has moved slowly (though not always steadily) to a central place in our everyday lives, and how it will be even more crucial as the World Wide Web moves into its next generation. |
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... brain , " MIT's Marvin Minsky declared a few years ago , " hap- pens to be a meat machine . " The phrase seems to ... brain research , for though the neurophysiologists don't put it in quite the colorful terms Minsky does , their ...
... brain , " MIT's Marvin Minsky declared a few years ago , " hap- pens to be a meat machine . " The phrase seems to ... brain research , for though the neurophysiologists don't put it in quite the colorful terms Minsky does , their ...
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... brain . On the contrary , the brain seems to me all the more awesome without a magic explanation . For my own taste , the elegant structure of DNA , say , is more satisfying in every way than any proposal of an élan vital . Nor need ...
... brain . On the contrary , the brain seems to me all the more awesome without a magic explanation . For my own taste , the elegant structure of DNA , say , is more satisfying in every way than any proposal of an élan vital . Nor need ...
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... brain , other parts of the brain can assume responsibility for the functions the damaged part used to do , par- ticularly if the damage occurs early in the brain's existence . In other words , there seems to be a good deal of built - in ...
... brain , other parts of the brain can assume responsibility for the functions the damaged part used to do , par- ticularly if the damage occurs early in the brain's existence . In other words , there seems to be a good deal of built - in ...
Contents
Beginnings | 1 |
From Energy to Information | 37 |
The Machinery of Wisdom | 59 |
Copyright | |
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