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E-reserves
for FYS 164:
Issues in Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2010 -Joseph O'Rourke
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Reserve Readings:

 

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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.

 

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        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

      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).

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

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

5c. Click Here to Article 

        Dewdney, A. K.  The (new) Turing omnibus : 66 excursions in      

        computer science : Chapter 16  Genetic Algorithms: Solutions     

        that Evolve (pp. 103-108) 6 pages.

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        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.

 

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

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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.

 

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

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

 

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