Reviews for Artificial Intelligence in Design '02

The average rating for Artificial Intelligence in Design '02 based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-10-26 00:00:00 Tim Lukes Alan Turing is an entertaining read, at least from the computer science POV. Which is basically his POV. This was a very approachable book for someone with a computer science background. Which makes sense, because it's the start of quite a few classes of what you would take towards a computer science degree. Had they of course only developed about a chapter of very terse, informative notes per class. But realistically? It's the most important parts - the seeds that would become whole subfields later on. For example Computer Architecture (CS 250 / 301 to me) - Turing walks through the construction of his ACE machine in pretty much what you'd expect out of building a computer with the tools available at the time. Mercury is probably a little harder to get a hold of these days, but otherwise? The principles haven't changed, just the cost of materials. And even then, not by much. One thing that I was taught, as a young student was that computers 'only do what you tell them to do'. Yet even in the very beginning, way back in these papers Turing clearly described how this might not be so. Lovelace might be forgiven had she believed this ( but even she I suspect imagined machine creativity and machine learning beyond the programmers ability to foresee or imbue. ) So why was I taught this way? How did 40-140 years of computer science not internalize this idea? It is a mystery. You can see the little seeds of Godel Escher Bach here, too, though not as deeply thought through. In general, whether or not you're a computer science student, you could do worse for having a 'computer science' part of your bookshelf than by including this one.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-11-27 00:00:00 Jeremy Herringer Illuminante!