Robotics Reference
In-Depth Information
Part I
An Early History of Artificial Intelligence
In which we encounter the earliest attempts to automate some of the
processes of human thought. These two chapters span a period of al-
most seven centuries, witnessing the creation of mechanical devices
that could talk, compose music and solve problems in logic. The ad-
vent of electrical technology made possible the creation of the first ma-
chines for playing games and translating languages, as well as the first
autonomous robots, and by the end of this era, in the mid-twentieth
century, the birth of the computer had spawned ideas for “thinking ma-
chines” that could outperform the best humans at a host of intellectually
demanding tasks.
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