Smarts: The Boundary-Busting Story of Intelligence
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SMARTS tells the stories of the brilliant scientists redefining whatintelligence is, and who, or what, displays it. Merging Darwin'sideas with Alan Turing's, they have found intelligence everywhere,while turning it into a process to be used. SMARTS' charactersinclude the mysterious Turing; the infamous eugenicist FrancisGalton; ethologist Frans B.M. de Waal and his political chimpanzees;Anne E. Russon and her miming orangutans; Dario Floreanoand his altruistic robots; Stefano Mancuso and his masterful plants; engineer/philosopherChris Eliasmith whose Spaun is assmart as the average university student and will be coming soonto a robot near you. There are slime molds that compute, octopusesthat signal in colors they cannot see, spies, deaths, anddisappearances. Part history, part memoir, SMARTS is a report from the front where machines are getting way too smart, andsmart life is being machined.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0994051204
ISBN13:9780994051202
Release Date:April 2015
Publisher:Debonaire Productions Inc.
Length:660 Pages
Weight:2.10 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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