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Arguing A.I.: The Battle for Twenty-First Century Science.-(book review)

Publication: IBM Systems Journal
Publication Date: 01-SEP-02
Format: Online - approximately 836 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Sam Williams, Random House, New York, 2002. 128 pp. (ISBN 0-8129-91180-X).

The study of intelligence, real and artificial, has always given rise to passionate philosophical and social debates. In general, these boil down to the two Big Questions: First, can we understand intelligence in a...

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...purely mechanistic terms and use that understanding to build intelligent machines--perhaps even superhuman ones? And second, if we could do that, would it be good thing to do? Would this be the next great step in evolution, or a stupid, perhaps suicidal act on the part of the human species? Or both?

These are two very different questions, although they are often muddled together in various ways. Obviously, the urgency of the second question depends in large part on...

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