Inno -E Books
Description:
If you loved "2001: A Space Odyssey," you'll be delighted by this book that asks "How realistic was HAL?" Contributions by various scientists include essays on supercomputer design with regard to speech synthesis, common sense reasoning, emotions, lip reading and even playing chess. As the authors explore what is science fantasy and what is technological fact, they also look at how HAL influenced technological development in the past 30 years. The final chapter, called "When HAL Kills, Who's to Blame?" deals with the ethical aspects of building intelligent machines.
High Noise To Signal Ration
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Number Of Pages: 384
- Publication Date: 1996-11-08
- Sales Rank: 1121015
- ISBN / ASIN: 0262193787
- EAN: 9780262193788
- Binding: Hardcover
- Manufacturer: The MIT Press
- Studio: The MIT Press
- Average Rating: 4.5
- Total Reviews: 12
I guess every geek would have watched the movie "2001: The Space Odyssey" when the year 2001 arrived and asked a question what's missing? Why we still don't have anything even close to HAL? This book tries to answer the question by giving you essays written by experts in specific areas of computing. I found some of the chapters getting really boring, especially those tiring to speculate how HAL would have worked instead of reporting current state of affair. The book is not the kind which will make you sit and keep reading it. The noise to signal ratio after about 100 pages was high enough for me to get distracted and pick something else.
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