" Machines who think—how utterly preposterous," huff beleaguered humanists, defending
their dwindling turf." Artificial Intelligence—it's here and about to surpass our own," crow techno…

… and Cohen) his three-volume Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, and Winston and Brown
edited a different set of important material in their Artificial Zntelligence: An MIT Perspective. In …

… AI / 459 EPISTEMOLOCICAL PROBLEMS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE John McCarthy
… and Hayes 1969), we proposed dividing the artificial intelligence problem into two parts - an …

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… When we take the logic ity in Artificial Intelligence.” The topic turned out to … in artificial
intelligence (AI] is almost as unsolved as ever, although we now have many ideas not available in …

… ORG THE BIG IDEA 4 The most important general-purpose technology of our era is artificial
intelligence, particularly machine learning (ML) — that is, the machine’s ability to keep …

… In this way the Master Argument can be reconstructed using discrete time and the Diodorean
idea of implication. We think it very likely that this was the kind of reasoning actually used …

… go out to Florian Mast for the priceless cartoons and very effective collaboration. I hope
that during your studies this book will help you share my fascination with Artificial Intelligence. …

… machine is old, but serious work on the problem of artificial intelligence or even serious … of
artificial intelligence as beginning with Turing's article 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence' (…