
AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence
Daniel Crevier
#2806 of 3,809 books · #302 in Science & Technology
Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (1993).
A fascinating portrait of the people, programs, and ideas that have driven the search to create thinking machines. Rich with anecdotes about the founders and leaders and their celebrated feuds and intellectual gamesmanship, AI chronicles their dramatic successes and failures and discusses the next necessary breakthrough: teaching computers "common sense".
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyShortlisted(1993)
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