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The Emotion Machine : Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind by Marvin Minsky, Mercedes García Garmilla is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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Early efforts to model human-like thinking with machines using rules were interesting but failed in a number of ways to capture even simple ways that humans think. Marvin Minsky, AI pioneer at MIT, insists that we understand the mistakes and can begin to appreciate how the mind actually works in functional terms from the lessons we have learned. Learninig from our past mistakes, what a novel idea. To put this into perspective, the question of whether a machine model can adequately describe a brain has long been considered in terms of either strong AI or weak AI. Most people find weak AI plausible: computers can solve certain kinds of problems better than humans. We mostly balk at strong AI however: machines can literally think like humans and solve the same kinds of problems just as well. In The Emotion Machine, Marvin Minsky presents a very machine-like architecture that he claims actually represents the way real minds probably work in fundamental respects. That sounds pretty much like strong AI. So a lot of people will reject the concept of this book out of hand. I think that would be a mistake. Minsky has done a very good job identifying plausible specifics of why AI programs

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Author

Marvin Minsky, Mercedes García Garmilla

Publisher

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780743276641

Category

science

Subjects

Fiction, Mathematics, Science

Rating

3.75 / 5 (414 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13