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E-reserves
for FYS 164:
Issues in Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2011 -Joseph O'Rourke
Page last updated 24 Aug 2011 by JOR

Reserve Readings:

 

  1. Click Here to Article

Turing, A. (1950, October). Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind , LIX (2236), 433-460.

[Note to students: Skip Sections 3,4,5, except the last paragraph of Section 5, beginning with "We may now consider again ..."]

 

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Searle, J. Chinese Room Argument, MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, COG NET.

 

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Searle, J. (1990, January). Is the Mind's Brain a Computer Program? Scientific American, 262, 26-31.

[Note to students: Background, in case you need more details.]

 

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Churchland, P., & Churchland, P. (1994). Chapter 7: Could a Machine Think? In E. Dietrich (Ed.), Thinking Computers and Virtual Persons: Essays on the Intentionality of Machines. Academic Press.

[Note to students: End at p.164, "With these criticisms in place, ...."]

 

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Block, N. (2002). Searle's Arguments against Cognitive Science. In J. Preston and M. Bishop (Eds.), Views into the Chinese Room: New essays on Searle and artificial intelligence (pp. 70-79). Oxford University Press.

 

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Dennett, D. (2007, September/October). Higher Games. Technology Review.

 

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McClain, D. L. (2003, January 25). If a Machine Creates Something Beautiful, Is It an Artist? The New York Times.

3c. Click Here to Article [old: link incorrect?]

Dewdney, A. K. The (new) Turing omnibus: 66 excursions in computer science, Chapter 6, "Game Trees: The Minmax Method" (pp. 36-41) 6 pages.

3d. Click Here to Article [old: link incorrect?]

Ekbia, H. R. (2008). Artificial Dreams: The Quest for Non-Biological Intelligence: Chapter 2, "Deep Blue: Supercomputing AI" (pp. 39-63). 25 pages.

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Lenat, D. (1997). From 2001 to 2001: Common Sense and the Mind of Hal. Ch.9.In D. Stork and A. C. Clark (Eds.), Hal's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality. MIT Press.

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Lee, L. (2004). "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that": Linguistics, Statistics, and Natural Language Processing circa 2001. In Computer Science: Reflections on the Field, Reflections from the Field (Report of the National Academies' Study on the Fundamentals of Computer Science) (pp. 111-118).

4c. Click Here to Article [old: link incorrect?]

Ekbia, H. R. (2008). Artificial Dreams: The Quest for Non-Biological Intelligence: Chapter 4, "CYC: Knowledge-Intensive AI" (pp. 91-133). 43 pages.

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David Ferrucci et al. "Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project," AI Magazine, Fall 2010, pp. 59-79. 21 pages.

4e. Click Here to Article [new]

"CYC-ology—Using AI to Organize Knowledge" : blog on Lenat talk, by Elze. Nov. 2009.

4f. Click Here to Article [new]

"Doug Lenat—I was positively impressed with Wolfram Alpha". Doug Lenat, Mar. 2009.

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Li Deng and Xuedong Huang, "Challenges in Adopting Speech Recognition". CACM, Jan. 2004, Vol. 47, No. 1, 69-75.

5a. Click Here to Article

Dawkins, R. (1986). Chapter 3: Accumulating Small Change. The Blind Watchmaker (1996 ed.) (pp. 51-74) . W.W. Norton.

5b. Click Here to Article

Mitchell, T. M. (2006, July). The Discipline of Machine Learning. Technical Report CMU-ML-06-108.

5c. Click Here to Article [old: link incorrect?]

Dewdney, A. K. The (new) Turing omnibus: 66 excursions in computer science, Chapter 16, "Genetic Algorithms: Solutions that Evolve" (pp. 103-108) 6 pages.

5c. Click Here to Article [old: link incorrect?]

Dewdney, A. K. The (new) Turing omnibus: 66 excursions in computer science, Chapter 36, "Neural Networks that Learn: Converting Coordinates" (pp. 241-249) 8 pages.

6a. Click Here to Article

Keats, J. (2006, April 19). John Koza Has Built an Invention Machine. Popular Science.

 

6b. Click Here to Article

Roush, W. (2006, September 25). The Art of the Possible. Technology Review.

 

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Boden, M. A. (1994). Agents & Creativity. In D. Riecken (Ed.), Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery: special issue on Agents.

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Margaret Boden, "Can computer models help us to understand human creativity?", in On the Human: a project of the National Humanities Center, May 2010.

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Kurt Kleiner, "Robot scientist makes discoveries without human help ", in New Scientist, April 2009.

7a. Click Here to Article

Brooks, R. I, Rodney Brooks, Am a Robot. IEEE Spectrum Special Report: The Singularity.

7b. Click Here to Article

Warren, P. (2006, October 26). Launching a new kind of warfare. The Guardian.

 

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Hansen, S. (2002, January 2). The emotional machine: interview with Steve Grand. Salon.com.

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Brooks, R. (2002). Chapter 10: Us as Them. Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us (pp. 213-236). Pantheon Books.

 

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Ekbia, H. R. (2008). Epilog: Democritus's Atomic Dream. Artificial Dreams: The Quest for Non-Biological Intelligence (pp. 309-334 and pp. 370-371). Cambridge University Press.

 

10a. Click Here to Article

Kurzweil, R. (2007, February 2). Forward to The Intelligent Universe.


10b. Click Here to Article

Hall, J. S. (2007). Chapter 20: "The Age of Virtuous Machines." Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine ( pp. 333-355). Prometheus Books.

10c. Click Here to Article [new]

"Tech Luminaries Address Singularity". IEEE Spectrum Inside Technology, June 2008.

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