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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... look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster , but there you could look at a thing monstrous and free . It was unearthly , and the men were — no , they were not inhuman . Well , you know , that was the worst of it - this suspicion ...
... look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster , but there you could look at a thing monstrous and free . It was unearthly , and the men were — no , they were not inhuman . Well , you know , that was the worst of it - this suspicion ...
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... look at other sciences , which maybe aren't so personally threatening to people , claims are made all the time . Look at the can- ons of behavior in astronomy today . You know , someone can go around with the smallest scintilla of ...
... look at other sciences , which maybe aren't so personally threatening to people , claims are made all the time . Look at the can- ons of behavior in astronomy today . You know , someone can go around with the smallest scintilla of ...
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... Look at Cohen , discovering news about color from AARON because the program can do things even beyond the marvelous visual system that nature endowed Cohen with . With help - yes , the help of our own artifacts — we might at last be ...
... Look at Cohen , discovering news about color from AARON because the program can do things even beyond the marvelous visual system that nature endowed Cohen with . With help - yes , the help of our own artifacts — we might at last be ...
Contents
Beginnings | 1 |
From Energy to Information | 37 |
The Machinery of Wisdom | 59 |
Copyright | |
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