Mind Children

The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence

Hans Moravec

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$34.50 • £27.95 • €31.00

ISBN 9780674576186

Publication Date: 01/02/1990

Short

224 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

12 halftones, 13 line illustrations

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COMPUTERS: Intelligence (AI) & Semantics

List of Figures*
Prologue
1. Mind in Motion
2. Powering Up
3. Symbiosis
4. Grandfather Clause
5. Wildlife
6. Breakout
Appendix 1. Retinas and Computers
Appendix 2. Measuring Computer Power
Appendix 3. The Outer Limits of Computation
Bibliography
Acknowledgments and Illustration Credits
Index

* Figures
- Intelligence on Earth
- Walking Machine
- Five Legs
- Three Fingers
- Autonomous Navigation
- Object Finding
- A General-Purpose Robot
- The Retina
- Comparative Computational Power and Memory
- A Century of Computing
- ENIAC
- Magic Glasses (Early Model)
- Robot Proxy
- Unreal Estate—The Road to Point Reyes
- A Robot Bush
- The Corpus Callosum
- Computer Virus Blowup
- Selfish Martians
- Spacetime Pyramid
- Large Spacetime Pyramids from Small
- I Think, Therefore I Am
- Two-Slit Experiment
- Two Slits and Waves
- Robot Pals

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