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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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The MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab could pass at times for the world's largest and best-equipped playroom.

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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 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.