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After Thought : The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence

After Thought : The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence

After Thought : The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence Hardback - 1996

by James Bailey

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Basic Books, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title After Thought : The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence
  • Author James Bailey
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York
  • Publication date 1996
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0465007813I4N10
  • ISBN 9780465007813 / 0465007813
  • Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.44 x 6.4 x 1.09 in (23.98 x 16.26 x 2.77 cm)
  • Reading level 1360
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Brezhnev, Leonid Ilich
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96001050
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

Through the first fifty years of the computer revolution, scientists have been trying to program electronic circuits to process information the same way humans do. Doing so has reassured us all that underlying every new computer capability, no matter how miraculously fast or complex, are human thought processes and logic. But cutting-edge computer scientists are coming to see that electronic circuits really are alien, that the difference between the human mind and computer capability is not merely one of degree (how fast), but of kind(how). The author suggests that computers "think" best when their "thoughts" are allowed to emerge from the interplay of millions of tiny operations all interacting with each other in parallel. Why then, if computers bring to the table such very different strengths and weaknesses, are we still trying to program them to think like humans? A work that ranges widely over the history of ideas from Galileo to Newton to Darwin yet is just as comfortable in the cutting-edge world of parallel processing that is at this very moment yielding a new form of intelligence, After Thought describes why the real computer age is just beginning.

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