Machines Who Think

Description

A history of artificial intelligence from its Greek and Judaic proto-history to its beginning realizations as a subfield of computer science in the 20th century, featuring candid interviews with the field's founders.
The new afterword summarizes the field's history since the book's end, in the mid-1970s, to the present.

The book's central argument is that artificial intelligence has preoccupied the human imagination for millennia and preceptions of AI as a science have been deeply colored by the uniquely psychological issues it arouses in nearly everyone, champions and antagonists alike