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What Robots Can and Can't Be (Hardcover, 1992 ed.)
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What Robots Can and Can't Be (Hardcover, 1992 ed.)
Series: Studies in Cognitive Systems, 12
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What Robots Can and Can't Be is a self-contained, rigorous,
sustained argument for the unique, two-sided position that: (side
one) Al will continue to produce machines with greater and greater
capacity to pass stronger and stronger versions of the Turing Test;
but that (side two) the Person Building Project' (the attempt by
cognitive engineers to build a machine which is a person) will
inevitably fail. The defense of side two rests in large part on a
refutation of the proposition that persons are automata -- a
refutation involving an array of issues, from free will to GAdel to
introspection to Searle and beyond. The defense of side one brings
the reader face to face with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they
tackle perhaps their toughest case (Silver Blaze'); the upshot of
this visit with Conan Doyle's duo is an algorithm-sketch for the
solving of murder mysteries. Side two also involves a look at the
author's mechanical' approach to writing fiction, and the
philosophical side of computerized story generation. The volume is
peppered with numerous illustrations, all quite professionally
done.
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