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Brainmakers: How Scientists Moving Beyond Computers Create Rival to Humn Brain: How Scientists Moving Beyond Computers Create Rival to Humn Brain Paperback - 1995
by Freedman, David H
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Describing a radical new approach to artificial intelligence that uses nature's own remarkable achievements to set a blueprint for the future, Freedman takes readers on a mind-expanding journey through the laboratories engaged in this cutting-edge research.
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- Title Brainmakers: How Scientists Moving Beyond Computers Create Rival to Humn Brain: How Scientists Moving Beyond Computers Create Rival to Humn Brain
- Author Freedman, David H
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Printing
- Condition New
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Touchstone Books, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1995-04-19
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ00A66F_ns
- ISBN 9780671510558 / 067151055X
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.54 x 5.64 x 0.6 in (21.69 x 14.33 x 1.52 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 006.3
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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 neuro-science 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, mircobiology, 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.