The Question of Artificial Intelligence
Brian P. Bloomfield, "The Question of Artificial Intelligence "
English | ISBN: 1138585319 | 2018 | 304 pages | EPUB | 1475 KB
English | ISBN: 1138585319 | 2018 | 304 pages | EPUB | 1475 KB
Originally published in 1987 when Artificial Intelligence (AI) was one of the most hotly debated subjects of the moment; there was widespread feeling that it was a field whose ‘time had come’, that intelligent machines lay ‘just around the corner’. Moreover, with the onset of the revolution in information technology and the proclamation from all corners that we were moving into an ‘information society’, developments in AI and advanced computing were seen in many countries as having both strategic and economic importance. Yet, aside from the glare of publicity that tends to surround new scientific ideas or technologies, it must be remembered that AI was a relative newcomer among the sciences; that it had often been the subject of bitter controversy; and that though it had been promising to create intelligent machines for some 40 years prior to publication, many believe that it had actually displayed very little substantive progress.
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