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of the philosophical argument. I also avoid a strongly historical narrative, but if you enjoy the history of science I recommend, The Missing 4%, and Quantum for a really clear exposé of the issues HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016087 398 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? around quantum mechanics, relativity and cosmolo

Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics. New Ed. Oxford Paperbacks, 1999. Petzold, Charles. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine. John Wiley & Sons, 2008. Sacks, Oliver. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Reprint.

ogy (except via their obvious role in giving rise to biological phenomena describable via classical physics) remains a subject of debate [AGBD* 08]. Quantum “magic” aside, it is also conceivable that building AGI is fundamentally impossible for some other reason we don’t understand. Without getting religi

cognitive behaviors to a young human child (say, a 3 year old) [AABL02]. In fact this sort of idea has a long and venerable history in the AI field — Alan Turing’s original 1950 paper on AT [Tur50], where he proposed the Turing Test, contains the suggestion that "Instead of trying to produce a programme to simu

at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Society. He is the author of How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival and American Physics and the Cold War Bubble (forthcoming). Seth Lloyd is a theoretical physicist at MIT, Nam P. Suh Professor in the Depart

re only a few actual computers in operation, Norbert Wiener imagined the future we now contend with in impressive detail and with few clear mistakes. Alan Turing’s famous 1950 article “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” in the philosophy journal Mind, foresaw the development of AI, and so did Wiener, but Wie

at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Society. He is the author of How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival and American Physics and the Cold War Bubble (forthcoming). Seth Lloyd is a theoretical physicist at MIT, Nam P. Suh Professor in the Depart

re only a few actual computers in operation, Norbert Wiener imagined the future we now contend with in impressive detail and with few clear mistakes. Alan Turing’s famous 1950 article “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” in the philosophy journal Mind, foresaw the development of AI, and so did Wiener, but Wie