Understanding Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is the proposition that human brains are nothing more than machines, albeit extremely complicated oned, whose abilities will someday be duplicatedand surpassedby computers. Such a goal may seem elusive now, but these essays present the wide spectrum of knowledge already compiled on the pursuit of this dream.

Foreword: Building a Non-Human Intelligence

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Rodney Brooks

Introduction

1

(4)

Sandy Fritz

On Computational Wings

5

(14)

Kenneth M. Ford

Patrick J. Hayes

2001: A Scorecard

19

(4)

Gary Stix

Programming Artificial Intelligence

23

(7)

Douglas B. Lenat

Fuzzy Logic

30

(13)

Bart Kosko

How Neural Networks Learn from Experience

43

(17)

Geoffrey E. Hinton

Computing with Molecules

60

(17)

Mark A. Reed

James M. Tour

Intelligent Materials

77

(13)

Craig A. Rogers

The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine

90

(11)

Ray Kurzweil

Rise of the Robots

101

(15)

Hans Moravec

Will Robots Inherit the Earth?

116

(15)

Marvin L. Minsky

Marvin L. Minsky: The Mastermind of Artificial Intelligence

131

(7)

John Horgan

Conclusion

138

(3)

Index

141

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