After Thought: The Computer Challenge To Human Intelligence

Bailey, James

ISBN 10: 0465007813 / ISBN 13: 9780465007813

Editore: Basic Books (edition First Edition), 1996

With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Codice articolo 0465007813-8-1-29

Riassunto:

Through the first fifty years of the computer revolution, scientists have been trying to program electronic circuits to process information the same way humans do. Doing so has reassured us all that underlying every new computer capability, no matter how miraculously fast or complex, are human thought processes and logic. But cutting-edge computer scientists are coming to see that electronic circuits really are alien, that the difference between the human mind and computer capability is not merely one of degree (how fast), but of kind(how). The author suggests that computers “think” best when their “thoughts” are allowed to emerge from the interplay of millions of tiny operations all interacting with each other in parallel. Why then, if computers bring to the table such very different strengths and weaknesses, are we still trying to program them to think like humans? A work that ranges widely over the history of ideas from Galileo to Newton to Darwin yet is just as comfortable in the cutting-edge world of parallel processing that is at this very moment yielding a new form of intelligence, After Thought describes why the real computer age is just beginning.

Product Description: Book by Bailey James

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: After Thought: The Computer Challenge To ...
Casa editrice: Basic Books (edition First Edition)
Data di pubblicazione: 1996
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Very Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta
Edizione: First Edition.