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Prediction Machines
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Prediction Machines

by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb
April 2018
Beginner
272 pages
6h 20m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Why It’s Called Intelligence

In 1956, a group of scholars met at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire to map out a research path to artificial intelligence. They wanted to see if computers could be programmed to engage in cognitive thought, things like playing games, proving mathematical theorems, and the like. They also thought carefully about what language and knowledge are so that computers could describe things. Their efforts involved attempts to give computers choices and have them choose the best one. The researchers were optimistic about the possibilities of AI. When asking for funds from the Rockefeller Foundation, they wrote:

An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds ...

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ISBN: 9781633695689