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Growing Up with Lucy: How to Build an Android in Twenty Easy Steps

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With a subtitle of How to Build an Android in Twenty Easy Steps, this is a most interesting book. But you do need to understand two things: One this is not an Android in the sense of what you see on television or in the movies, and Two, while there are twenty chapters in the book, some of them aren't all that easy. ==This is not a description of how to build an android, instead it is some thinking on how some aspects of mental processes might best be implemented using today's electronic technology. He presents some thoughts on how we perceive sound and how our mind processes visual images that are different in both concept and implementation than I've seen before. They certainly seem in conflict with descriptions from other writers. I haven't studied this book enough yet to have formed opinions as to the validity of his views. Sometimes just looking at things a bit differently is enough to open other doors in your mind. At any rate, this makes a very interesting read, and may point some of us in other directions.

This book is not what is sounds like. It's moderately interesting in its own right, but it's not what the title suggests. The author even alludes to this in the introduction, tongue-in-cheek. However, I don't find anything funny about misleading people as to the contents of your book. I think the 3 I've given it is incredibly generous.

I love Steve Grand's writing voice. He not only writes clearly and in a conversational style, but he makes the information both accessible and entertaining!

Yet another excellent book on creating synthetic life from Steve Grand. As always, he uses his unpretentious style and fun wit to keep the reader entertained while at the same time tackling some very complex questions about neuroscience and intelligence.

An excellent read for anyone interested in understanding intelligence and how we might create it in a machine.

This book can't help you build anything, but give you ideas what an android can do today...