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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... Truth ( though there are truths in it ) . Here I address my fellow human- ists more than anyone else , because so many of them are con- vinced that science is somehow alien to the humanities . I want them to see that it is not . I want ...
... Truth ( though there are truths in it ) . Here I address my fellow human- ists more than anyone else , because so many of them are con- vinced that science is somehow alien to the humanities . I want them to see that it is not . I want ...
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... truth , and parroted by every sales and service person con- nected with the company . It came to be a popular idea , a sort of slogan of the backlash , and is offered to this day by people who feel threatened by the idea of machine ...
... truth , and parroted by every sales and service person con- nected with the company . It came to be a popular idea , a sort of slogan of the backlash , and is offered to this day by people who feel threatened by the idea of machine ...
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... truth as I see it . If , as Jacob Bronowski often said , there's no absolute knowledge , we still ought to try and capture truth as fully truth as fully as we can . The second reason is that a lot of special pleading , private agendas ...
... truth as I see it . If , as Jacob Bronowski often said , there's no absolute knowledge , we still ought to try and capture truth as fully truth as fully as we can . The second reason is that a lot of special pleading , private agendas ...
Contents
Beginnings | 1 |
From Energy to Information | 37 |
The Machinery of Wisdom | 59 |
Copyright | |
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