The Cognitive Computer: On Language, Learning, and Artificial Intelligence

by Roger C. Schank and Peter Childers

Book Overview

Language, learning and artificial intelligence. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 020106443X
• ISBN13: 9780201064438
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Cognitive Computer by Schank and Childers

The authors explain how artificial intelligence involves seeingsomething familiar in a new light. The challenge is to emulatescripts built up over time and experience. There are significantproblems with programs which do not change as the result ofnew knowledge. In addition, there are problems in computerlearning from failure. In practice, it is impossible toarticulate every possible error condition. Even if the knowledgeengineer could articulate every possible error, the next problemis programming the computer system to do a multiplicity ofvalidations. Too many validations built into a system, can causethe throughput to degrade substantially . When throughputsuffers, the overall efficiency of the system collapses.This work is an important advance in artificial intelligence andexpert systems.