artificial intelligence Books
We've found 108 books tagged 'artificial intelligence' relevant to the field of humanlike conversational artificial intelligence.
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5837
by Robert Epstein, Gary Roberts and Grace Beber |
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Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer |
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Springer
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2008 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Parsing-... |
Summary: “Parsing the Turing Test” is a landmark exploration of both the philosophical and methodological issues surrounding the search for true artificial intelligence. Will computers and robots ever think and communicate the way humans do? When a computer crosses the threshold into self-consciousness, will it immediately...
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5816
by Scientific American |
Summary: UNDERSTANDING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is one of the first four titles that launch an exciting new Pocket Science series, from the editors of America’s leading popular science magazine, Scientific American.
Comprised of critically acclaimed essays by the world’s leading experts on each topic in the series, these...
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The MIT Press
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1996 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Sciences... |
Summary: “People sometimes ask me what they should read to find out about artificial intelligence. Herbert Simon’s book The Sciences of the Artificial is always on the list I give them. Every page issues a challenge to conventional thinking, and the layman who digests it well...
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When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence |
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Penguin Books Ltd
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2000 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Age-Spir... |
Summary: A sprawling introduction to artificial intelligence by a computing pioneer who feels that machines will become conscious fairly soon, then become more intelligent than humans. A fearless, fun, well-informed read that brews together philosophy, computing, and sci-fi speculation.
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5813
by Douglas R. Hofstadter |
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An Eternal Golden Braid |
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Basic Books
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1979 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Godel-Es... |
Summary: Douglas Hofstadter’s book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of...
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5701
by Marvin L. Minsky and Seymour A. Papert |
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An Introduction to Computational Geometry |
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The MIT Press
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1987 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Perceptr... |
Summary: Perceptrons - the first systematic study of parallelism in computation - has remained a classical work on threshold automata networks for nearly two decades. It marked a historical turn in artificial intelligence, and it is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the connectionist...
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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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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5539
by Bryan Bergeron and Ray Kurzweil |
Summary: The Eternal E-Customer focuses on getting ebusinesses to the next level of customer loyalty. In the competitive world of ecommerce, the winners know that the key to success is customer appreciation and retention. Emotionally Intelligent Interfaces (EII) are driven by data from previous customer interactions,...
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5537
by George F. Gilder, Ray Kurzweil and Jay Richards |
Summary: Computers are becoming more powerful at an ever-increasing rate, but will they ever become conscious? Artificial intelligence guru Ray Kurzweil thinks so and explains how we will “download” our software (our minds) and “upgrade” our hardware (our bodies) to become immortal—before the dawn of the...
