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Synopsis
Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Method examines the remarkable advances made in the field of AI over the past twenty years, discussing their profound implications for philosophy. Taking a clear, non-technical approach, Donald Gillies focuses on two key topics within AI: machine learning in the Turing tradition and the development of logic programming and its connection with non-monotonic logic. Demonstrating how current views on scientific method are challenged by this recent research, he goes on to suggest a new framework for the study of logic. He draws on work by such seminal thinkers as Bacon, Gödel, Popper, Penrose, and Lucas to address the hotly contested question of whether computers might become intellectually superior to human beings. These topics will attract a wide readership from followers of advances in artificial intelligence, to students and scholars of the history and philosophy of science.
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Examines advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) over the past 20 years and discusses their implications for philosophy, focusing on machine learning in the Turing tradition, and the development of logic programming and its connection with non-monotonic logic. Explores how current views on scientific method are challenged by new research in AI, and incorporates the ideas of philosophers such as Bacon and Penrose to address the question of whether computers can become intellectually superior to human beings. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.