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AI at the Inception - A 25th-anniversary edition of a classic chronicles the fledgling science of artificial intelligence. Book review by Henry Fountain. Scientific American (May 2004). "When Machines Who Think was first published in 1979, it was an up-to-the-moment history. But in a digital world, that moment was an eternity ago, so McCorduck has appended a 30,000-word afterword to bring the reader up-to-date. [Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence.
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Ben books: Probabilistic Term Logic, Engineering General Intelligence, Artificial Cognitive Development. Open source: AGISim, embodiment for AI. Goal-driven inference, 45%, sensor processing 35%, background inference, 20%. Ben is not a purist about embodiment, cares about the ingestion of databases (WordNet, FrameNet, Cyc, quantitative scientific data, etc.); approach called ‘post-embodied AI’. Non-body AI is okay, but it would have a hard time getting together with humans. Eliezer: AI is made of math, so even if it seems easy, it’s actually that hard to do Friendly AI all the time.
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In his book Shadows of the Mind, Roger Penrose suggests that deep problems in artificial intelligence, physics, and the philosophy of mind are closely connected. He presents a detailed argument, using Gödel's theorem, for the conclusion that human thought cannot be simulated by any computation. This leads him to the conclusion that physics is noncomputable, and he presents suggestions about how noncomputability may enter into a theory of quantum gravity. Finally, he argues that this may take effect at the level of the mind through quantum collapse processes in microtubules, protein structures found in the skeleton of a neuron.
ROB CALLAN is a Technical Consultant specialising in artificial intelligence and pattern recognition. This will be his fourth book and his third major textbook, having previously written for Prentice Hall, Letts and OUP. He lectured in artificial intelligence for a number of years before returning to the aerospace industry.
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