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Brainmakers: How Scientists Moving Beyond Computers Create Rival to Humn Brain

Brainmakers: How Scientists Moving Beyond Computers Create Rival to Humn Brain

Freedman, David H.

Paperback

BiologyCognitionGeneral Computers

ISBN10: 067151055X
ISBN13: 9780671510558
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Published: Apr 6 1995
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.64 Depth: 8.54
Language: English
Join David Freedman as he takes you on a fascinating tour behind the scenes at laboratories around the world as top researchers race to create revolutionary thinking machines that may one day lead to a new form of intelligence. The subject of fantasy and skepticism for centuries--from William James's mechanical bride to 2001's Hal to Star Wars' R2D2--artificial intelligence has been limited to number-crunching computers that are smart only in highly specific domains like chess--until now. Brainmakers is an eye-opening, mind-expanding, and mind-blowing journey through laboratories engaged in cutting-edge research into neuroscience and robotics. Inside, you'll discover: MIT's Attila, a 3.6-pound, six-legged robot that learns as it interacts with its surroundings. Japan's efforts to grow brain cells on chips and construct a wiring diagram of the human brain. UCLA's robot farm, where robots will be bred for intelligence. In exciting yet accessible detail, Freedman shows how this research has moved into a new realm that transcends computer science, combining neuroscience, microbiology, evolutionary biology, and zoology. Modeled after natural rather than artificial intelligence, thinking machines may soon develop powers that rival--or exceed--those of the human brain.

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