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Absolutely fascinating book!

ByMonterey residenton January 2, 2018

How refreshing to read a book that uses vocabulary targeted towards an audience with more than a 6th grade education! The author goes off on lots of tangents and although I usually prefer to read fiction, I found myself unable to put the book down. The question he tries to answer is one I had never thought about and is apparently much more difficult to answer than one would expect. If you are looking for fluffy escapism, this book is not for you. The book will definitely get you thinking.

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Not Much Substance

ByJDCon August 9, 2017

This is a typical kind of nonfiction work that is popular these days, a technical subject, a chatty author, lots of research, kind of like writing a college paper, but not a lot of depth. The book revolves around the Turing test and distinguishing human from computer thinking. The author has a college degree in computer science and philosophy and a chatty way of writing that draws you in. But about halfway through the book you start to get the feeling that the author does not have much to say, that his insights are pretty shallow and that what would have been interesting in a 15 page magazine article is a lot less interesting in a 300 page book.

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Scatter-Brained

ByLizzyon May 19, 2014

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

The author started out the book with the best of intentions, to compare artificial intelligence to actual human intelligence, but I think he got lost along the way.

The entire final chapter seemed like it was written to fill up space. The ideas throughout were fascinating but the examination of those ideas once they were presented needed a little more discipline and less rambling about.

I would recommend for people interested in AI as a philosophy, but is not a very scientific read.

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Good topic but the book is slow

ByShelley Pasternakon April 3, 2013

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I enjoy the subject but the author's thoughts go off on tangents quite a bit. The writing is a bit dry, even for the subject material. I was more interested in the facts presented to support his arguments rather than the argument itself.

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