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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... mysterious but ancient urge to reproduce ourselves in some essential but extraordinary way . Artificial intel- ligence comes blessed with one of the richest and most diverting histories because it addresses itself to something profound ...
... mysterious but ancient urge to reproduce ourselves in some essential but extraordinary way . Artificial intel- ligence comes blessed with one of the richest and most diverting histories because it addresses itself to something profound ...
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... mysterious phenomena of the human mind . What he hoped to find was noth- ing less than a physiological theory of knowledge . He would have been perfectly comfortable with Marvin Minsky's description of the brain as a meat machine ...
... mysterious phenomena of the human mind . What he hoped to find was noth- ing less than a physiological theory of knowledge . He would have been perfectly comfortable with Marvin Minsky's description of the brain as a meat machine ...
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... mysterious spectacle that is the whole man . But why is awe only possible with mystery ? Can't we be awed by the known as well ? Or even more ? A Japanese maple outside my study window turns from green to flame . That I know the chemi ...
... mysterious spectacle that is the whole man . But why is awe only possible with mystery ? Can't we be awed by the known as well ? Or even more ? A Japanese maple outside my study window turns from green to flame . That I know the chemi ...
Contents
Beginnings | 1 |
From Energy to Information | 37 |
The Machinery of Wisdom | 59 |
Copyright | |
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