The age of intelligent machines
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The age of intelligent machines
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992, c1990
- : pbk.
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Includes bibligraphical references and index
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Description
In "The Age of Intelligent Machines", inventor and computer scientist Raymond Kurzweil probes the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence, from its earliest philosophical and mathematical roots to tantalizing glimpses of 21st-century machines with superior intelligence and prodigious speed and memory. This book provides the background needed for an understanding of the enormous scientific potential represented by intelligent machines as well as their equally profound philosophic, economic, and social implications. Running alongside Kurzweil's historical and scientific narrative are 23 articles examining contemporary issues in artificial intelligence. This book won the Association of American Publishers Annual Award for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing. It contains articles by: Charles Ames; Margaret A. Boden; Harold Cohen; Caniel C. Dennett; Edward A. Feigenbaum; K. Fuchi; George Gilder; Douglas R. Hofstadter; Michael Lebowitz; Margaret Litven; Blaine Mathieu; Marvin Minsky; Allen Newell; Brian W. Oakley; Seymour Papert; Jeff Pepper; Roger Schank and Christopher Owens; Sherry Turkle; Mitchell Waldrop.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The roots of artificial intelligence: the usual definition
- the moving-frontier definition
- what is intelligence, anyway?
- evolution as an intelligent process
- philosophical roots - Plato and the Platonists, the Enlightenment, the logical positivists and the Existential reaction, the debate goes on
- mathematical roots - Russell's paradox, the five contributions of Turing
- the formula for intelligence - unifying formulas - the goal of science, the sea of logic and the Turing maching, the recursive formula and three levels of intelligence, other approaches to modeling the software of intelligence - random nets, pandemonium, and trees, the formula of life as a formula of intelligence
- mechanical roots - early automata and calculating engines, Charles Babbage and the world's first programmer, the practical path
- electronic roots - the first computer, welcoming a new form of intelligence on earth - the A1 movement. Part 2 The moving frontier: pattern recognition - the search for order - vision, the real world
- the search for knowledge - knowledge and expert systems, putting knowledge to work, language - the expression of knowledge, putting it all together - the age of robots, an international affair
- the science of art - the musical arts, the visual arts, the literary arts. Part 3 Visions of the future: visions - scenarios, breakthroughs
- the impact on ... - employment and the economy, education, communications, warfare, medicine, the handicapped, music, politics, our concept of ourselves.
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