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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... million - bit memory cost a million dollars ; today a memory of the same size ( and working a hundred times faster ) can be purchased for the price of a good dinner . Some seers predict another hun- dredfold decrease in size and cost ...
... million - bit memory cost a million dollars ; today a memory of the same size ( and working a hundred times faster ) can be purchased for the price of a good dinner . Some seers predict another hun- dredfold decrease in size and cost ...
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... million pixels ( there are indeed about 100 million rod cells in each eye to detect shape and motion and 6 million cone cells to detect color and fine detail ) . 12 The diameter of typical sombrero filters used in computer - vision ...
... million pixels ( there are indeed about 100 million rod cells in each eye to detect shape and motion and 6 million cone cells to detect color and fine detail ) . 12 The diameter of typical sombrero filters used in computer - vision ...
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... million personal computers are sold in the U.S. Isaac Asimov describes in his science fiction novel Robots of Dawn a society two centuries from now in which a beautiful female scientist and her " humaniform " robot lover live in the ...
... million personal computers are sold in the U.S. Isaac Asimov describes in his science fiction novel Robots of Dawn a society two centuries from now in which a beautiful female scientist and her " humaniform " robot lover live in the ...
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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