From the Author
AI4U: Mind-1.1 Programmer's Manual is a supplemental or stand-alone AI textbook with 34 chapters -- one for each of the 34 mind-modules of the tutorial artificial Mind-1.1 release. Each chapter starts with a brain-mind theory diagram to illustrate the mental process taking place in the implemented mind-module, and ends with AI laboratory/homework exercises ranging from the immediately practical to the most ambitious dreams of your AI imagination. The book as a whole introduces a
linguistic theory of mind (TOM) for AI. An epilogue on consciousness features a system diagram of the entire artificial mind. Although the complete JavaScript source code of the Mind-1.1 release is listed in the AI4U textbook so that computer science students may study the algorithm of any mind-module, there is no need to scan or key in the
code, because it is freely available on the Web as public-domain AI software that runs in the MSIE (Microsoft Internet Explorer) browser. The purchase of the First Edition AI4U book eliminates the need for Mind-1.1 users to pay a shareware fee for the free AI source code available by searching for "Mentifex" on the World Wide Web or by visiting the open-source "Mind" project at SourceForge.
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
From the Back Cover
AI4U:
Mind-1.1 Programmer's Manual
has the following positive and negative points.
+ It describes the rapidly evolving AI Minds on the Web.
- It quickly becomes obsolete as the AI hyper-evolves.
+ On-demand publishing (ODP) makes for quick updates.
- The Mentifex project is considered oddball on the 'Net.
+ You've got the first book about the first real AI Mind.
- There are other, better, more authoritative AI textbooks.
+ AI4U makes a good supplement for actually coding AI.
- Artificial intelligence is too hard to understand.
+ AI4U describes the AI while it is still easy to learn.
- "I would rather build robots than study AI programming."
+ If you want to build a smart robot, then AI4U is for you.
- "I'm only a high school student/teacher; what's the use?"
+ This book will challenge even the most gifted student.
- "I am not a programmer and so I can't code AI."
+ AI4U teaches you how to operate an AI, not just code it.
- "I just want to do Web design, not artificial intelligence."
+ AI4U provides an AI that you may install on your website.
- "I am more interested in neuroscience and/or psychology."
+ AI4U teaches a theory of how the brain works psychologically.
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
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