Algorithms Are Not Enough
Algorithms Are Not Enough
Creating General Artificial Intelligence
Herbert L. Roitblat
The MIT Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in-Publication Data
Names: Roitblat, H. L., author.
Title: Algorithms are not enough : creating general artificial intelligence /
Herbert L. Roitblat.
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020] | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019046398 | ISBN 9780262044127 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Artificial intelligence.
Classification: LCC Q335 .R65 2020 | DDC 006.3—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019046398
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Contents
Preface ix
1 Introduction: Intelligence, Artificial and Natural 1
The Invention of Human Intelligence 5
Computational Intelligence 8
Natural Intelligence 9
The General in General Intelligence 11
Specialized, General, and Superintelligence 13
Resources 18
2 Human Intelligence 21
Intelligence Testing 22
Problem Solving 25
Well-Formed Problems 25
Formal Problems 29
Insight Problems 36
Quirks of Human Intelligence 43
Conclusion 49
Resources 49
3 Physical Symbol Systems: The Symbolic Approach to
Intelligence 53
Turing Machines and the Turing Test 54
The Dartmouth Summer Workshop (1956) 59
Representation 61
Definition of General Intelligence 74
Conclusion 76
Resources 77
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4 Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning 81
Limits of Expert Systems 81
Probabilistic Reasoning 84
Machine Learning 86
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