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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... physical capabilities . With these new machines , humans could manipulate objects for which our muscles alone were inadequate and carry out physical tasks at previously unachievable speeds . While the social and economic impact of this ...
... physical capabilities . With these new machines , humans could manipulate objects for which our muscles alone were inadequate and carry out physical tasks at previously unachievable speeds . While the social and economic impact of this ...
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... physical difference between the conscious and nonconscious or preconscious mind , and since we have agreed that the difference between them is consciousness , must we not conclude by a simple step of logic that consciousness is not physical ...
... physical difference between the conscious and nonconscious or preconscious mind , and since we have agreed that the difference between them is consciousness , must we not conclude by a simple step of logic that consciousness is not physical ...
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... physical world in terms of physical processes . In time the child learns that the stone falls because of gravity ; intentions have nothing to do with it . And so a dichotomy is constructed : physical and psychological properties stand ...
... physical world in terms of physical processes . In time the child learns that the stone falls because of gravity ; intentions have nothing to do with it . And so a dichotomy is constructed : physical and psychological properties stand ...
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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