- Paperback: 720 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press; New Ed edition (3 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 026266125X
- ISBN-13: 978-0262661256
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 3.8 x 25.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Most artificial intelligence seems artificially dumb. Sure, Deep Blue can beat a chess grandmaster two games out of three, but could it get out of the way of an oncoming bus? AI researchers are coming to understand that if we want more than idiot savants, we'll need to build our machines from the ground up--a behaviour-based approach. Rolf Pfeifer, Head of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Zurich and Christian Scheier, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Zurich and Caltech, have put together Understanding Intelligence, the definitive introduction to this approach for students, amateurs and professionals alike. As they admit, there are plenty of gaps in our knowledge, so they take pains to make our ignorance as well as our knowledge explicit and encourage thinking beyond the text with "Issues to Think About" at the end of each chapter.
Delving into neural networks, subsumption architecture, principles and design of intelligent systems, and future applications, the authors strive to exhaust the literature and compress it into concise, readable text with plenty of illustrations where appropriate. Given the freshness of the material, it feels less like a textbook and more like a treasure map--we don't know what we'll find when we get there but we know it's going to be good. Whether robotics is a career, a hobby or a side interest for you, Understanding Intelligence will help you get to work from the bottom up. --Rob Lightner, amazon.com --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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""Understanding Intelligence" is a comprehensive and highly readable introduction to embodied cognitive science. It will be particularly helpful for people interested in getting involved in the construction of intelligent agents."--Arthur B. Markman, "Science"
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is a wonderful overview of current approaches to AI. The book successfully compares the strengths and (some of the) weaknesses of these new approaches to the problems inherant in classical AI. The review of these problems is very lucid and easy to follow. As someone looking for a readable overview of current thinking and research directions in the area, I found this book excellent. Whilst not bedtable reading, it is certainly far more accessible than many texts on this subject. I am seriously considering making this a main text for one of my courses. Hope that this is recommendation enough.
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Though not a book for the bedside table, this excellent piece of work covers a wide range of topics in an easy to read manner. Artificial life and situated robotics are some of the most exciting research areas in Artificial Intelligence to date and this one book has gathered together some of the foremost ideas in the field into one accessible read. A definite buy for the student of this field and an illuminating read for those who are already interested in this topic.
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An introduction to many interesting areas, but a conclusive guide to none ....
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