The Age of Intelligent Machines
Encyclopedia
The Age Of Intelligent Machines is the title of an artificial intelligence
documentary (1987) and book (1990) by futurist
Ray Kurzweil; this was his first book and it won the Most Outstanding Computer Science
Book of 1990 award by the Association of American Publishers
.
Many guest "A.I. experts" were featured.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
documentary (1987) and book (1990) by futurist
Futurology
Futures studies is the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. There is a debate as to whether this discipline is an art or science. In general, it can be considered as a branch under the more general scope of the field of...
Ray Kurzweil; this was his first book and it won the Most Outstanding Computer Science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
Book of 1990 award by the Association of American Publishers
Association of American Publishers
The Association of American Publishers is the national trade association of the American book publishing industry. AAP has more than 300 members, including most of the major commercial publishers in the United States, as well as smaller and non-profit publishers, university presses and scholarly...
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Many guest "A.I. experts" were featured.
External links
- The Age of Intelligent Machines at KurzweilAI.net