Can
machines really think? Is the mind just a
complicated computer program? Introducing
Artificial Intelligence focuses on the major
issues behind one of the hardest scientific
problems ever undertaken
Artificial Intelligence is not just a fictional
concept. Half a century of research in the
construction of intelligent machinery has
resulted in machines capable of beating the
best human chess players and humanoid robots
that can walk and interact with us.
Despite
early claims that intelligent machines were
just around the corner, progress has been
slow and difficult. Consciousness and environment
are two of the deeply complex problems encountered.
How exactly should we go about building an
intelligent machine? Should it work like a
mind? Should it work like a brain? Does it
require a body?
Introducing Artificial Intelligence clearly
explains the advances made over the past half-century,
from Alan Turing’s influential groundwork
to cutting-edge robotics and the New AI.
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Henry
Brighton is a research scientist at the Max
Planck Institute for Human Development in
Berlin, Where he explores cognition-inspired
approaches to Artificial Intelligence. Previously,
he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the
university of Edinburgh, and a research scientist
at SHARP Laboratories of Europe, Oxford.
Howard
Selina studied painting at St. Martin’s School
of Art and the Royal Academy in London, where
he now lives and works. He has also illustrated
Introducing titles on Evolution and Consciousness.
