Brainmakers: How Scientists Moving Beyond Computers Create Rival to Humn Brain : How Scientists are Moving beyond Computers to Create a Rival to the Human Brain
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
067151055X
ISBN-13
9780671510558
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Imprint
Touchstone
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 6th, 1995
Print length
220 Pages
Weight
294 grams
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14.00 x 21.60 x 2.00 cms
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Science: general issues
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Join David Freedman as he takes you on a fascinating tour behind the scenes at laboratories around the world as top researchers race to create revolutionary "thinking machines" that may one day lead to a new form of intelligence.
The subject of fantasy and skepticism for centuries—from William James''s mechanical bride to 2001''s Hal to Star Wars'' R2D2—artificial intelligence has been limited to number-crunching computers that are "smart" only in highly specific domains like chess—until now. Brainmakers is an eye-opening, mind-expanding, and mind-blowing journey through laboratories engaged in cutting-edge research into neuroscience and robotics. Inside, you''ll discover:
MIT''s Attila, a 3.6-pound, six-legged robot that learns as it interacts with its surroundings.
Japan''s efforts to grow brain cells on chips and construct a "wiring diagram" of the human brain.
UCLA''s "robot farm," where robots will be "bred" for intelligence.
In exciting yet accessible detail, Freedman shows how this research has moved into a new realm that transcends computer science, combining neuroscience, microbiology, evolutionary biology, and zoology. Modeled after natural rather than artificial intelligence, thinking machines may soon develop powers that rival—or exceed—those of the human brain.
The subject of fantasy and skepticism for centuries—from William James''s mechanical bride to 2001''s Hal to Star Wars'' R2D2—artificial intelligence has been limited to number-crunching computers that are "smart" only in highly specific domains like chess—until now. Brainmakers is an eye-opening, mind-expanding, and mind-blowing journey through laboratories engaged in cutting-edge research into neuroscience and robotics. Inside, you''ll discover:
MIT''s Attila, a 3.6-pound, six-legged robot that learns as it interacts with its surroundings.
Japan''s efforts to grow brain cells on chips and construct a "wiring diagram" of the human brain.
UCLA''s "robot farm," where robots will be "bred" for intelligence.
In exciting yet accessible detail, Freedman shows how this research has moved into a new realm that transcends computer science, combining neuroscience, microbiology, evolutionary biology, and zoology. Modeled after natural rather than artificial intelligence, thinking machines may soon develop powers that rival—or exceed—those of the human brain.
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