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We've found 388 books relevant to the field of humanlike conversational artificial intelligence.
Summary: From Publishers Weekly
Minsky, cofounder of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, is a charter member of the community of AI pioneers committed to understanding the workings of the human mind and mimicking its processes by computer. Here he takes his place as this generation’s Buckminster Fullera revered...
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5697
by Daniel C. Dennett |
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Back Bay Books
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1992 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Consciou... |
Summary: A unique book which presents new theories accessibly. Dennett theorizes that consciousness is comprised of “multiple drafts,” with the mind as a decentralized cognitive engine. Dennett suggests his own “heterophenomenological” approach to interpreting and analyzing consciousness, using a mix of behaviorist and nativist techniques to...
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5692
by Daniel C. Dennett |
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Toward An Understanding Of Consciousness |
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Basic Books
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1997 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Kinds-Mi... |
Summary: Amazon.com Review
In Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett embarks on the audacious task of explaining human consciousness. He sets his sights even higher for Kinds of Minds, attempting to provide a more general explanation of consciousness. But don’t be put off: the book is short, easy to...
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5691
by Daniel C. Dennett |
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Essays on Designing Minds |
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The MIT Press
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1988 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Brainchi... |
Summary: Amazon.com Review
One of the movers and shakers in the rapidly converging fields of cognitive science, philosophy of the mind, and cognitive ethology, Daniel C. Dennett is also one of the most popular and engaging expositors of science writing of the 1990s. The essays in Brainchildren...
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5690
by Zoltan Torey and Daniel C. Dennett |
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An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain |
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The MIT Press
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2009 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Crucible... |
Summary: From the Foreword:
“Torey’s way of putting things sheds new light on just what is going on in the ‘computational’ brain, since he has to find alternative metaphors to stand in for the now somewhat overworked comparison with computers. Just as poets often find that the...
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5695
by Joseph Weizenbaum |
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From Judgment to Calculation |
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Penguin Books Ltd
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1984 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Computer... |
Summary: Computer Power and Human Reason is Weizenbaum’s exploration of his own misgivings about technology and Artificial Intelligence. It is more philosophical than technical, but offers a few detailed chapters that provide a foundation for the person who is not a computer scientist.
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The Reinvention of Nature |
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Routledge
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1990 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Simians-... |
Summary: From Publishers Weekly
Scholars of modern feminist theory, particularly of perspectives on science (notably biology) and how they relate to perceptions of human culture, will appreciate these 10 essays by science historian Haraway ( Primate Visions ), adapted from articles published between 1978 and 1989. They...
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5683
by Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores |
Summary: This book describes an approach to using computers to perform an enabling role within corporate enterprises by using their ability to allow clearer understanding between participants in the workplace. The other aspect of this book looks at current methods of creating AI systems and their...
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(Clarendon Paperbacks) |
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Oxford University Press
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1990 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Philosop... |
Summary: The late J.L. Austin’s influence on contemporary philosophy was substantial during his lifetime, and has grown greatly since his death in 1960. This third edition of Philosophical Papers, the first edition of which was published in 1961, includes all of Austin’s published papers (except “Performatif-Constatif”)...
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5651
by J. L. Austin and G. J. Warnock |
Summary: A book presenting many of the major issues of ordinary language philosophy
