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If you loved "2001: A Space Odyssey," you'll be delighted by this book that asks "How realistic was HAL?" Contributions by various scientists include essays on supercomputer design with regard to speech synthesis, common sense reasoning, emotions, lip reading and even playing chess. As the authors explore what is science fantasy and what is technological fact, they also look at how HAL influenced technological development in the past 30 years. The final chapter, called "When HAL Kills, Who's to Blame?" deals with the ethical aspects of building intelligent machines.
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...Stork has assembled a beautiful package of essays on just how close computers have come to Clarke's vision over the last three decades.
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If you loved "2001: A Space Odyssey," you'll be delighted by this book that asks "How realistic was HAL?" Contributions by various scientists include essays on supercomputer design with regard to speech synthesis, common sense reasoning, emotions, lip reading and even playing chess. As the authors explore what is science fantasy and what is technological fact, they also look at how HAL influenced technological development in the past 30 years. The final chapter, called "When HAL Kills, Who's to Blame?" deals with the ethical aspects of building intelligent machines.
Analog
...Stork has assembled a beautiful package of essays on just how close computers have come to Clarke's vision over the last three decades.
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- Arguing A.I.: The Battle for Twenty-first-Century Science by Sam Williams on page 26, and page 70
- The Undiscovered Mind: How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, and Explanation by John Horgan on page 214, and Index
- The Evolution of Wired Life: From the Alphabet to the Soul-Catcher Chip—How Information Technologies Change Our World by Charles Jonscher in Back Matter
- A History of the Personal Computer: The People and the Technology by Roy A. Allan in