Defending AI Research: A Collection of Essays and Reviews / Edition 73

Defending AI Research: A Collection of Essays and Reviews / Edition 73

by John McCarthy
ISBN-10:
1575860198
ISBN-13:
9781575860190
Pub. Date:
06/01/1996
Publisher:
Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Defending AI Research: A Collection of Essays and Reviews / Edition 73

Defending AI Research: A Collection of Essays and Reviews / Edition 73

by John McCarthy

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Overview

John McCarthy's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of LISP and time-sharing to the coining of the term AI and the founding of the AI laboratory at Stanford University. One of the foremost figures in computer sciences, McCarthy has written papers which are widely referenced and stand as milestones of development over a wide range of topics. In this collection of reviews, McCarthy staunchly defends the importance of Artificial Intelligence research against its attackers; this book gathers McCarthy's reviews of books which discuss and criticise the future of AI. Here, McCarthy explores the larger questions associated with AI, such as the question of the nature of intelligence, of the acquisition and application of knowledge, and the question of the politics behind this research.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781575860190
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Publication date: 06/01/1996
Series: Lecture Notes , #49
Edition description: 73rd ed.
Pages: 130
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

1. An unreasonable book; 2. Weizenbaum again-sermon to physicists; 3. Review of artificial intelligence: a general survey; 4. Lessons from the lighthill flap; 5. Review of artificial antelligence: the veryidea; 6. Review of mathematics: the loss of certainty; 7. Review of John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener; 8. Review of The Emperor's New Mind; 9. Review of Shadows of the Mind; 10. Review of The Question of Artificial Intelligence; 11. Review of Cognitive Science and Concepts of Mind; 12. Review of Artificial Intelligence: Its Scope and Limits; 13. Review of What Computers Still Can't Do; 14. Review of Before It's Too Late: A Scientist's Case for Nuclear Energy; 15. Petition for the withdrawal of computing the future; 16. Review of Weapons and Hope; 17. Review of The Fifth Generation - Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World; 18. Review of Not in our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature; 19. Review of The Cult of Information.
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