The Age of Intelligent MachinesWhat is artificial intelligence? At its essence, it is another way of answering a central question that has been debated by scientists, philosophers, and theologians for thousands of years: How does the human brain - three pounds of ordinary matter - give rise to thought? With this question in mind, inventor and visionary computer scientist Raymond Kurzweil probes the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence, from its earliest philosophical and mathematical roots through today's moving frontier, to tantalizing glimpses of 21st-century machines with superior intelligence and truly prodigious speed and memory. Lavishly illustrated and easily accessible to the nonspecialist, The Age of Intelligent Machines provides the background needed for a full understanding of the enormous scientific potential represented by intelligent machines and of their equally profound philosophic, economic, and social implications. It examines the history of efforts to understand human intelligence and to emulate it by building devices that seem to act with human capabilities. Running alongside Kurzweil's historical and scientific narrative, are 23 articles examining contemporary issues in artificial intelligence by such luminaries as Daniel Dennett, Sherry Turkle, Douglas Hofstadter, Marvin Minsky, Seymour Papert, Edward Feigenbaum, Allen Newell, and George Gilder. Raymond Kurzweil is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Kurzweil Music Systems, and the Kurzweil Reading Machines division of Xerox. He was the principal developer of the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind and other significant advances in artificial intelligencetechnology. |
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... language . He goes on in the Tractatus to consider language to be the embodiment of what can be said , what can be known , indeed , what can be thought : 4.0.0.3.1 All philosophy is a " critique of language . " 46 5.6 The limits of my ...
... language . He goes on in the Tractatus to consider language to be the embodiment of what can be said , what can be known , indeed , what can be thought : 4.0.0.3.1 All philosophy is a " critique of language . " 46 5.6 The limits of my ...
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... language.55 Our ability to express and understand language is often cited as a principal differentiating characteristic of our species . Language is the means by which we share our knowledge . Though we have only very limited access to ...
... language.55 Our ability to express and understand language is often cited as a principal differentiating characteristic of our species . Language is the means by which we share our knowledge . Though we have only very limited access to ...
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... Language Processing . 57. Terry Winograd has cogently argued that natural languages assume an enormous quantity of background knowledge . A computer system that lacks this knowledge will not be able to understand language in the sense ...
... Language Processing . 57. Terry Winograd has cogently argued that natural languages assume an enormous quantity of background knowledge . A computer system that lacks this knowledge will not be able to understand language in the sense ...
Contents
What Is Al Anyway? | 13 |
A Platonic Dialogue on the Nature of Human Thought Raymond Kurzweil | 46 |
Reconstructions of the Psychological | 68 |
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