Can a machine think? This question is in a class with those snappy vaudeville comebacks: does a chicken have lips?
An edition of Machines Who Think
(1979)
Machines who think
a personal inquiry into the history and prospects of artificial intelligence
25th anniversary update.
by Pamela McCorduck
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"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 and why. She saw artificial intelligence as the scientific apotheosis of one of the most enduring, glorious, often amusing, and sometimes alarming, traditions of human culture: the endless fascination with artifacts that think. Machines Who Think was translated into many languages, became an international cult classic, and stayed in print for nearly twenty years." "Now, Machines, Who Think is back, along with an extended Afterword that brings the field up to date in the last quarter century, including its scientific and its public faces. McCorduck shows how, from a slightly dubious fringe science, artificial intelligence has moved slowly (though not always steadily) to a central place in our everyday lives, and how it will be even more crucial as the World Wide Web moves into its next generation."--Jacket.
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Machines who think: a personal inquiry into the history and prospects of artificial intelligence
2004, A.K. Peters, AK Peters
in English
- 25th anniversary update.
1568812051 9781568812052
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Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence
September 1981, W H Freeman & Co (Sd)
Paperback
in English
- New Ed edition
0716711354 9780716711353
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Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence
1979, W. H. Freeman and Company
Hardcover
in English
0716710722 9780716710721
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Machines who think: a personal inquiry into the history and prospects of artificial intelligence
1979, W. H. Freeman
in English
0716710722 9780716710721
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