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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... course of exam- ining his own astonishing mental faculties , Rene Descartes con- cluded that mind and body are two quite different things . Ac- cordingly , he divided human acts up into two distinct kinds , mechanical and rational ...
... course of exam- ining his own astonishing mental faculties , Rene Descartes con- cluded that mind and body are two quite different things . Ac- cordingly , he divided human acts up into two distinct kinds , mechanical and rational ...
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... courses . I was going to City College at the time . I failed a physics course and a math course— theory of functions of real variables . It was quite a shock and I gave up chess after that term . I suppose I continued reading about it ...
... courses . I was going to City College at the time . I failed a physics course and a math course— theory of functions of real variables . It was quite a shock and I gave up chess after that term . I suppose I continued reading about it ...
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... course . That's the way the course got established . Then we began to teach it once , maybe twice a year to Berkeley students . It attracted a wide variety of stu dents from different parts of the university , ranging from things like ...
... course . That's the way the course got established . Then we began to teach it once , maybe twice a year to Berkeley students . It attracted a wide variety of stu dents from different parts of the university , ranging from things like ...
Contents
Beginnings | 1 |
From Energy to Information | 37 |
The Machinery of Wisdom | 59 |
Copyright | |
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