Stuart Shieber (ed.), The Turing Test: Verbal Behavior as the Hallmark
of Intelligence, MIT Press, January 2004.
[Philosophical issues surrounding the TT as a test of intelligence, with
writings from Descartes to Ned Block.]
J. of Logic, Language, and Information, Oct. 2000, Vol. 9, Issue 4 ,
Special Issue on Alan Turing and Artificial Intelligence
(6 articles on the Turing Test).
Peter J. Denning (ed.), Talking Back to the Machine, Springer Verlag, 1999. [Futuristic articles by well-known people like Gordon Bell, Pattie Maes, Eliot Soloway, and Murray Gell-Mann. Especially the first 5 articles are good (by Gordon Bell, Carver Mead, Joel Birnbaum, Pattie Maes, and Nathan Myhrvold). Raj Reddy's ch.15, is rather interesting too.]
Rodney Brooks, Flesh and Machines : How Robots Will Change Us, Vintage, 2003. [Brooks' vision of a world with ubiquitous robots; interesting stuff about his commercial ventures; Furby is a cheat: the “learning” is a staged introduction of preprogrammed capabilities!]
CACM 40(2), Feb. 1997, Special Issue: Our Hopes, Our Visions, Our Plans. [Very brief, mostly 2pp essays by all sorts of people; no real coherence, but a source of ideas.]
Clifford A. Pickover (ed.), Visions of the Future, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1992. [20 articles, 2 or 3 of which are worth reading; in particular, H. Moravec has one called “The universal robot”, summarizing his evolutionary view of the future development of robotics and AI. Ira Glickstein has a skeptical article pushing the ”subsymbolic, connectionist“ line -- perhaps good as a representative article from that misguided (;-) camp. There are also articles on computer war games, computer art, computer story telling, etc., but unfortunately none of these are very contentful or insightful.]
Gregory J. E. Rawlins, Slaves of the Machine, MIT Press, 1997. [Well-written, amusing, but entirely nontechnical, lightweight stream of consciousness stuff about the history, significance and future of computation. The life and lamentable end of Turing are well-summarized, and the final thoughts on our feelings about the possibility of intelligent machines are worth reading and quoting -- e.g., why people are fearful about AI.]
Eric Dietrich (ed.), Thinking Computers and Virtual Persons, Ac. Press, 1994. [13 essays, mostly by philosophers like Resnick, Fields, Dennett, Dietrich, and Churchland, and a few by computer scientists like Dyer, Perlis, and Pat Hayes. All about ”intentionality“, Searle's Chinese room, and whether computers can ”really“ understand language. Only tangentially relevant to the course.]
Jay W. Richards (ed.), George F. Gilder, Ray Kurzweil, et al., Are We Spiritual Machines?: Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I., Discovery Institute, 2002.
Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World, Prometheus Books, 2002. [Seems to be a popular book, well-written, exuberant; but how well-informed?? Review at www.forteantimes.com]
Gregory S. Paul and Earl Cox, Beyond Humanity: Cyberevolution and Future Minds, Charles River Media, year?? [the authors are a paleantologist and a fuzzy logic person; hmmm.]
Stan Franklin, Artificial Minds, MIT Press, 1997. [About the nature of mind, rejecting a rigid distinction between mind and non-mind. Overviews of AI, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, etc., with glimpses of Newell's SOAR, Holland's genetic algorithms, Wilson's Animat, Brooks' subsumption architecture, Jackson's pandemonium theory, Ornstein's multimind, Marvin Minsky's society of mind, Patti Maes's behaviour networks, Gerald Edelman's neural Darwinism, Drescher's schema mechanisms, Pentti Kanerva's sparse distributed memory, Douglas Hofstadter and Melanie Mitchell's Copycat, and Agre and Chapman's deictic representations.]
George Dyson, Darwin Among the Machines, 1997. [The internet as a precursor of a new type of intelligence.]
Selmer Bringsjord and David Ferrucci, AI and Literary Creativity, Lawrence Erlbaum 1999. [The authors are at Rensselaer and TJ Watson respectively. The book is about their story-generator BRUTUS.]
Bill Hibbard, Götterdämmerung: Dawn of the Human-made Gods, 7 April 2001 draft, http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/gotterdammerung.html. [He provides a ps file for the entire book. It's fringe stuff, but as fringe stuff goes, looks kind of interesting, or at least benign; a sort of quasi-religious “looking forward to AI heaven”. Summary at http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/visfiles.html]