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The Brain Makers: The History of Artificial Intelligence Genius, Ego, And Greed In The Quest For Machines That Think
By HP Newquist
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By HP Newquist
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"The Brain Makers" is the definitive history of artificial intelligence (AI). From ancient myth to modern computers, the book explores the attempt to create machines that behave and think like humans. Along the way, readers meet the mythical Talas, Frankenstein's monster, Edgar Allan Poe's chess player, and the first mechanical robots--and are then introduced to the work of Alan Turing and the secretive military research labs of the 1960s. An entire industry was built around AI in the 1980s...