John Sutton
Philosophy Department, Macquarie University.
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Online Papers and Resources
A general-interest discussion about Artificial Intelligence in the light of Gary Kasparov's loss to Deep Blue in 1997.

A subsequent philosophical debate on Artificial Intelligence between Hubert Dreyfus and Dan Dennett:
(click on the names of the days at the left of the screen: the first message is at the bottom)

Jack Copeland, The Modern History of Computing
The Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC)
Renato M.E. Sabbatini, 'Imitation of Life: A History of the First Robots' with links on W. Grey Walter & his turtles.

Details about Cyc, Douglas Lenat's vast AI knowledge database (the target of, for example, Hubert Dreyfus' criticisms).
Here is the Cyc blurb:
                        The knowledge base is built upon a core of over 1,000,000 hand-entered assertions (or "rules")
                         designed to capture a large portion of what we normally consider consensus
                         knowledge about the world. For example, CYC knows that trees are usually outdoors,
                         that once people die they stop buying things, and that glasses of liquid should be
                         carried rightside-up.
You can find some interesting publications here, notably Lenat's chapter 'From 2001 to 2001: Common Sense
and the Mind of HAL' [HTML format: you can get it in Word or rtf from the publications page) from David G. Stork (ed.),
Hal's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality (MIT Press, 1998). The paper discusses philosophical problems
of building common sense in to a machine, and outlines the strategy and history of the Cyc project.

A good example of Jerry Fodor in action, in a review of Edward O. Wilson's book Consilience:
Jerry Fodor, 'Look!', London Review of Books vol.20, 29 October 1998
Jerry Fodor, 'A Science of Tuesdays' (review of Putnam)

Critical review of Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works:
'How Pinker's Mind Works', by Nicolas Nicastro.

TURING, TURING MACHINES, TURING TEST
THE ALAN TURING MEMORIAL - statue by Glyn Hughes
The Alan Turing Home Page. Vast site run by Turing's biographer, Andrew Hodges
Jack Copeland's Turing Archive for the History of Computing
COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE by A.M.TURING
The Loebner Prize

A Turing Machine program and page by Ken Schweller.

The ALICE nexus
 

John Sutton
Philosophy Department, Macquarie University.
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Back to Cognitive Science and Philosophy Index.

Last updated 4 August 2002.