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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Thus , two parents have more than two offspring , who in turn each have more than two offspring , who in turn .... Problem solving encounters the same difficulties , when one alternative path to a solution leads to several more branches ...
Thus , two parents have more than two offspring , who in turn each have more than two offspring , who in turn .... Problem solving encounters the same difficulties , when one alternative path to a solution leads to several more branches ...
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And third , I just thought it was an interesting rock to turn over . I didn't know what kind of mechanisms one would find if one tried to construct performances like that . I didn't know if there would be different ones , or if it would ...
And third , I just thought it was an interesting rock to turn over . I didn't know what kind of mechanisms one would find if one tried to construct performances like that . I didn't know if there would be different ones , or if it would ...
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Now we turn to another question , suggested by the ambivalence - one might even say terror — evoked in us by the first : Should a machine think ? To answer that , we have to make some guesses about how such thinking machines might ...
Now we turn to another question , suggested by the ambivalence - one might even say terror — evoked in us by the first : Should a machine think ? To answer that , we have to make some guesses about how such thinking machines might ...
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Contents
Beginnings | 1 |
From Energy to Information | 37 |
Delineates the early attempts of philosophers and later psychologists to define | 59 |
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| Title | Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry Into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence Ak Peters Series ITPro collection |
| Author | Pamela McCorduck |
| Edition | 2, illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, 2004 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Nov 2007 |
| ISBN | 1568812051, 9781568812052 |
| Length | 565 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology Computers / Artificial Intelligence / General Computers / Machine Theory Mathematics / History & Philosophy Mathematics / Recreations & Games Technology & Engineering / Automation |
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