Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial IntelligenceThis book is a history of artificial intelligence, that audacious effort to duplicate in an artifact what we consider to be our most important property—our intelligence. It is an invitation for anybody with an interest in the future of the human race to participate in the inquiry. |
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... EARLY POEMS : 1950-1970 by Adrienne Rich . Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company , Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data McCorduck , Pamela , 1940Machines who think : a personal inquiry into the history and ...
... EARLY POEMS : 1950-1970 by Adrienne Rich . Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company , Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data McCorduck , Pamela , 1940Machines who think : a personal inquiry into the history and ...
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... early attempts of philosophers, and later psychologists, to define the mind, and the parallel attempts of mathematicians to turn human logic into rigorous mathematics. Shows that the dominant model for these thinkers was from physics ...
... early attempts of philosophers, and later psychologists, to define the mind, and the parallel attempts of mathematicians to turn human logic into rigorous mathematics. Shows that the dominant model for these thinkers was from physics ...
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Contents
Beginnings | 1 |
The Turning Point | 109 |
Resistance | 193 |
Realizations | 241 |
The Tensions of Choice | 351 |
Afterword | 415 |
The Evolution of Intelligence | 523 |
535 | |
547 | |
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