The Age Of Intelligent Machines is the title of an artificial intelligence documentary (1987) and book (1990, ISBN 0-262-11121-7 / ISBN 0-262-61079-5) by futurist Ray Kurzweil; this was his first book and it won the Most Outstanding Computer Science Book of 1990 award by the Association of American Publishers. Many guest "A.I. experts" were featured.
Organization[]
- Prologue: The Second Industrial Revolution
- Chapter 1: The Roots of Artificial Intelligence
- Chapter 2: Philosophical Roots
- A Platonic Dialog on the Nature of Human Thought
- The Age of Intelligent People
- A Conversation between a Human Computer and a Materialist Philosopher
- ELIZA Passes the Turing Test
- A Coffeehouse Conversation on the Turing Test
- Chapter 3: Mathematical Roots
- Chapter 4: The Formula for Intelligence
- A NOR B--The Basis of Intelligence?
- Chapter 5: Mechanical Roots
- Chapter 6: Electronic Roots
- Chapter 7: The Moving Frontier
- Chapter 8: The Search for Knowledge
- An Expert System for Automotive Diagnosis
- The Significance of Fifth-Generation Computer Systems
- Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems--AI in the U.K.
- Chapter 9: The Science of Art
- A (Kind Of) Turing Test
- Artificial Intelligence and Musical Composition
- All Work and No Play Makes HAL a Dull Program
- The Mechanics of Creativity
- Chapter 10: Visions
- Fairy Tales
- Chapter 11: The Impact On...
- A Technology of Liberation
- Chronology
- Growing Up in the Age of Intelligent Machines: Reconstructions of the Psychological and Reconsiderations of the Human
- The Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence
- Can Computers Think?
- A Personal Postscript
- Thoughts about Artificial Intelligence
- Can Machines Think?
- Knowledge Processing--From File Servers to Knowledge Servers
- Brother Giorgio's Kangaroo
- Postscript
See also[]
- Simulated reality
External links[]
- Kurzweilai.net, The entire book and video (along with many other related publications by other authors) are freely available on this site.
- Machines Like Us, Website dealing with machine intelligence, synthetic life, evolution, cognition, and general science.
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