• Title The Age of Intelligent Machines
• Author(s) Ray Kurzweil
• Publisher: The MIT Press (January 30, 1992)
• Paperback: 579 pages
• eBook: HTML, PDF, ePub, Kindle, etc.
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0262610795
• ISBN-13: 978-0262610797
• Share This:  

Book Description

This book probes the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence, from its earliest philosophical and mathematical roots to tantalizing glimpses of 21st-century machines with superior intelligence and truly prodigious speed and memory.

Generously illustrated and easily accessible to the nonspecialist, this book provides the background needed for a full understanding of the enormous scientific potential represented by intelligent machines as well as their equally profound philosophic, economic, and social implications.

The format is a combination of monograph and anthology with contributed 23 essays by artificial intelligence experts such as Daniel Dennett, Douglas Hofstadter, and Marvin Minsky, examining contemporary issues in artificial intelligence.

• Ray Kurzweil is an American inventor and futurist. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism.

• Amazon

• Artificial Intelligence and Logic Programming
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning and Neural Networks
• Robotics and Robot Programming

• The Age of Intelligent Machines (Ray Kurzweil)
• The Mirror Site (1) - PDF
• The Mirror Site (2) - PDF
• The Wikipedia Page of the Book

• The Age of Spiritual Machines (Ray Kurzweil)
• A Collection of Essays by Kurzweil Reader, 2001 - 2003

• Playful Machine: Theoretical and Practical Self-Organizing Robots

  The book develops guided self-organization, a new method that helps to make the playful machines fit for fulfilling tasks in the real world. It comes with a robotics simulator inviting also the non-scientific reader to simply enjoy the fabulous world of playful machines.

• How Humans Judge Machines (Cesar A. Hidalgo, et al)

  A detailed examination of people's reactions to machine actions as compared to human actions. Through dozens of experiments, this book explores when and why people judge humans and machines differently.

• Paths: Why is Life Filled with so many Detours?

  This book explores the amazing similarity between paths taken by people and many other things in life, and its impact on the way we live, teach and learn. Offering insights into the new scientific field of paths as part of the science of networks, etc.

• Foundations of Robotics: Approach with Python and ROS

  This book introduces key concepts in robotics in an easy to understand language using an engaging project-based approach. It covers contemporary topics in robotics, providing an accessible entry point to fundamentals in all the major domains.

• Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control

  Offers a distinct and unified perspective of the mechanics, planning and control of robots. Ideal for self-learning, or for courses, as it assumes only freshman-level physics, ordinary differential equations, linear algebra and a little bit of computing background.

• Elements of Robotics (Mordechai Ben-Ari, et al)

  This book bridges the gap between playing with robots in school and studying robotics to prepare for careers in industry and research. Robotic algorithms are presented formally, but using only mathematics known by high-school and first-year college students.

• Robots and AI (Lili Yan Ing, et al)

  The book explains new approaches on how robots and artificial intelligence affect the world economy by presenting detailed theoretical framework and country-specific as well as firm-product level-specific exercises.