Machines, minds and computers
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Machines
    • 1.1 The tool-building animal
      • 1.1.1 Why build artificial creatures?
      • 1.1.2 What was being built? Or imagined?
      • 1.1.3 What has been the public attitude to artificial creatures?
    • 1.2 Tools and machines
  • 2 Minds
    • 2.1 What is mind?
    • 2.2 Artificial intelligence
    • 2.3 Cybernetics
  • 3 AI
    • 3.1 Enter the digital computer
      • 3.1.1 What is intelligence?
    • 3.2 Cybernetics and Symbolic AI
    • 3.3 Artificial intelligence – the quest
      • 3.3.1 Weak artificial intelligence
      • 3.3.2 Strong artificial intelligence
  • 4 Computers
    • 4.1 The digital computer
      • 4.1.1 Formal systems
      • 4.1.2 Automatic formal systems
      • 4.1.3 Principle of Automation
      • 4.1.4 Interpreted automatic formal systems
    • 4.2 What computers can do
      • 4.2.1 Models
      • 4.2.2 Optimisation problems
    • 4.3 What computers can't do?
  • 5 Conclusion – Symbolic AI and Cybernetics
  • Keep on learning
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • Acknowledgements

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