Books
We've found 388 books 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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A Philosophical Introduction |
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Wiley-Interscience
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1993 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Artifici... |
Summary: Presupposing no familiarity with the technical concepts of either philosophy or computing, this clear introduction reviews the progress made in AI since the inception of the field in 1956. Copeland goes on to analyze what those working in AI must achieve before they can claim...
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The MIT Press
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1993 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Language... |
Summary: Language Acquisition offers, in one convenient reader, work by the most outstanding researchers in each field and is intended as a snapshot of the sort of theory and research taking place in language acquisition in the 1990s. All of the articles and chapters were...
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Creating the Conscience of the Machine |
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Prometheus Books
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2007 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-A... |
Summary: Artificial intelligence (AI) is now advancing at such a rapid clip that it has the potential to transform our world in ways both exciting and disturbing. Computers have already been designed that are capable of driving cars, playing soccer, and finding and organizing information...
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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...
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Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind |
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Simon & Schuster
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2006 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Emotion-... |
Summary: From Publishers Weekly
Twenty years after The Society of Mind, where he introduced the concept that “minds are what brains do,” Minsky probes deeper into the question of natural intelligence. Don’t look for simple explanations: he believes “we need to find more complicated ways to explain...
