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IP: Age Of Spiritual Machines
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 09:55:43 -0500
From: "Richard Dooling" <richard () dooling com> THREE BOOKS ABOUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE **The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence** By RAY KURZWEIL Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind By HANS MORAVEC When Things Start to Think By NEIL GERSHENFELD All three Reviewed by COLIN McGINN http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/03/reviews/990103.03mcginnt.html [I added djf] Hello, Hal! as the invasion already begun? Are the aliens already right under our noses? Are machines, the products of human engineering intelligence, poised to take over the world -- or is this an irrational fear, the latest spasm of the Luddite spirit? Finally, is the whole idea just a clever marketing ploy for the investment-hungry artificial intelligence industry? Here we have three books, all written by experts in computer intelligence, aimed to persuade us that the Age of Machines is nigh. We are to be eclipsed by our own technology, ceding our outdated flesh, blood and neural tissue to integrated circuits and their mechanistic progeny.
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