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The Technological Singularity
"The idea that human history is approaching a 'singularity'--that ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or both--has moved from the realm of science fiction to serious debate. Some singularity theorists predict that if the field of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to develop at its current dizzying r…
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- 0262331829
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 244 pages).
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How the body shapes the way we think : a new view of intelligence
"A Bradford book."An exploration of embodied intelligence and its implications points toward a theory of intelligence in general; with case studies of intelligent systems in ubiquitous computing, business and management, human memory, and robotics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281553
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 394 pages) : illustrations
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How to build a person : a prolegomenon
"A Bradford book."Pollock describes an exciting theory of rationality and its partial implementation in OSCAR, a computer system whose descendants will literally be persons.Building a person has been an elusive goal in artificial intelligence. This failure, John Pollock argues, is because the problems involved are essentially philosophical; what is needed for the construction of a person is a p…
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- 0585336997
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- 1 online resource (xi, 189 pages) : illustrations
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Immersed in technology : art and virtual environments
The Banff Centre for the Arts has become synonymous for what's hot in the electronic arts, a place where professional artists come to produce new work and develop new skills. This book brings together critical essays along with artists' projects to explore the many issues raised by the creation of virtual environments and to provide a glimpse into worlds that have been much discussed but rarely…
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- 9780262290913
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 339 pages) : illustrations
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In-depth understanding : a computer model of integrated processing for narrat…
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Yale University, 1982).This book describes a theory of memory representation, organization, and processing for understanding complex narrative texts. The theory is implemented as a computer program called BORIS which reads and answers questions about divorce, legal disputes, personal favors, and the like. The system is unique in attempting to understan…
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- 0262256061
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 458 pages).
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- Artificial Intelligence Series
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Your Everyday Art World
A critic takes issue with the art world's romanticizing of networks and participatory projects, linking them to the values of a globalized, neoliberal economy. Over the past twenty years, the network has come to dominate the art world, affecting not just interaction among art professionals but the very makeup of the art object itself. The hierarchical and restrictive structure of the museum …
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Moving without a body :digital philosophy and choreographic thoughts
Digital technologies offer the possibility of capturing, storing, and manipulating movement, abstracting it from the body and transforming it into numerical information. In Moving without a Body, Stamatia Portanova considers what really happens when the physicality of movement is translated into a numerical code by a technological system. Drawing on the radical empiricism of Gilles Deleuze and …
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- 9780262313858
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- 1 online resource (x, 179 pages) :illustrations.
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Art + DIY electronics
"The first rigorous and systematic theory of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) electronic culture"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262361576
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Music and Connectionism
Music and Connectionism provides a fresh approach to both fields, using the techniques of connectionism and parallel distributed processing to look at a wide range of topics in music research, from pitch perception to chord fingering to composition. As one of our highest expressions of thought and creativity, music has always been a difficult realm to capture, model, and understand. The connec…
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- 9780262285032
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Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics
The first book to provide comprehensive introductory coverage of the multiple topics encompassed under psychoacoustics. How hearing works and how the brain processes sounds entering the ear to provide the listener with useful information are of great interest to psychologists, cognitive scientists, and musicians. However, while a number of books have concentrated on individual aspects of thi…
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