Affect and Artificial Intelligence

by Elizabeth A. Wilson

Book Overview

In 1950, Alan Turing, the British mathematician, cryptographer, and computer pioneer, looked to the future: now that the conceptual and technical parameters for electronic brains had been established, what kind of intelligence could be built? Should machine intelligence mimic the abstract thinking of a chess player or should it be more like the developing mind of a child? Should an intelligent agent only think, or should it also learn, feel, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295990473
• ISBN13: 9780295990477
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 8.9"