Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence. Author: Pamela McCorduck. Pamela 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. By Mike Holderness. Is it that time already? The classic Machines Who Think ( A. K. Peters, $) has come out in a 25th anniversary edition.

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Some people think that smart machines won’t have any desire to occupy our particular niche: In my book, I go further. I found the book enjoyable an interesting from a historical perspective. Trivia About Machines Who Thin 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.
Masterson – – Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 4: Aren’t you yourself worried? Toggle navigation Additional Book Information.
Machines Who Think
Want to Read Currently Reading Read. This article has no associated abstract. Twice I started this book, and twice I stopped before page McCorduck shows how, from a slightly dubious fringe science, artificial intelligence has moved slowly though not always steadily to a mccordukc place in our everyday lives, and how it will be even more crucial as the World Wide Web moves into its next generation.

Offline Computer — Download Bookshelf software to your desktop so you can view your eBooks with or without Internet access. This book may be useful as a parading of the cast of artificial intelligence AI characters inwhen it was first written but it does not do much for me today. mcocrduck

Research isn’t being done on some mountaintop in secret. I don’t think we can say no.
But scientists are trying to figure out how to design a machine that exhibits general intelligence, even if that means sacrificing a bit of specialized intelligence. Those are very narrow domains. Account Options Sign in. That’s what artificial intelligences do right now.
In fact, didn’t we hear that AI was going to be used for the government’s Total Information Awareness project? Ryan rated it really liked it May 08, The Bookshelf application offers access: But we still have a way to go, and no wonder.
But doesn’t that mean our own machines will replace us? The history of thinking machines is extremely rich: We’ve recently had a lot of bad news about cheating going on in the financial sector.
The other I call the Hebraic, which finds the whole idea of thinking machines wicked, even blasphemous. Would that stop other researchers elsewhere? Federico Milano rated it liked it Mar 17, That makes me very uncomfortable. It could be macyines conference attendance, group discussion or directed reading to name just a few examples. Based on extensive interviews with many of the early key players, it managed to forge the template for most subsequent histories, in the sense of providing them both the time line and the larger frame tale.
To see what mccordkck friends thought of this book, please sign up. Machines Who Think was conceived as a history of artificial intelligence, beginning with the first dreams of the classical Greek poets and the nightmares of the Hebrew prophetsup through its realization as twentieth-century science.
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What’s the difference between all those tall tales and what you’re writing about? Some people have said I was pamelz critical, too negative about that. Wilson – – Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 1:
