Synopses & Reviews
In March 1996, World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov was tied in two games and defeated in one by IBM's chess-playing computer Deep Blue. Then, in May 1997, Deep Blue soundly defeated Kasparov in a rematch -- a major event in the history of a scientific breakthrough that could well overshadow the conquest of space: the creation of a machine with a mind.
From the pioneering experiments in "cybernetics" of the 1940s to the digital computers and robot prototypes developed at Carnegie Mellon and MIT to the most current attempts to duplicate the evolution of intelligence, in MIND MATTERS James P. Hogan conducts a fascinating tour through the technical accomplishments and the social, political, and psychological implications of Artificial Intelligence. Casual readers and Scientific American subscribers, technophiles and technophobes alike, are certain to be enthralled by the history and mystery of humanity's ultimate interaction with machine.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 360-368) and index.