About the Book: Common Sense, the Turing Test, and the Quest for Real AI
What artificial intelligence can tell us about the mind and intelligent
behavior. What can artificial intelligence teach us about the mind? If AIs
underlying concept is that thinking is a computational process, then how can
computation illuminate thinking? Its a timely question. AI is all the rage, and
the buzziest AI buzz surrounds adaptive machine learning: computer systems that
learn intelligent behavior from massive amounts of data. This is what powers a
driverless car, for example. In this book, Hector Levesque shifts the
conversation to "good old fashioned artificial intelligence, "