Consider this: Robots will one day be able to write poetry and prose so touching that it will make men weep; compose dozens or even hundreds of symphonies that will rival the work of Mozart; judge a court case with absolute impartiality and fairness; or even converse with the natural ease of your best friend. Robots will one day be so life-like that a human could fall in love and marry one. Thought provoking and controversial? Certainly. Far-fetched? Not at all. David Levy presents the history of Artificial Intelligence, considers recent developments, and speculates about the future of AI. A
complete bibliography is available
here.
Part I: An Early History of Artificial Intelligence
1. Early
HistoryLogic, Games and Speech
2. Early HistoryRobots, Thought, Creativity,
Learning and Translation Part II: Fifty Years of Progress
3. How Computers
Play Games
4. How Computers Recognize
5. Creative Computers
6. How Computers
Think
7. How Computers Communicate
8. Things to Do for Robots Part III: The
Next Fifty Years
9. The Exponential Growth of Scientific Achievements
10.
Emotion and Love, AI Style
11. Sex and Reproduction, AI Style
12. Robot
Consciousness
13. Robot Rights and Ethics
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