{"product_id":"9789814513067","title":"What Makes You Clever: The Puzzle of Intelligence","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Black Holes and Big Bangs to the Higgs boson and the infinitesimal building blocks of all matter, modern science has been spectacularly successful, with one glaring exception — intelligence. Intelligence still remains as one of the greatest mysteries in science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do you chat so effortlessly? How do you remember, and why do you forget? From a basis of ten maxims \u003ci\u003eWhat Makes You Clever\u003c\/i\u003e explains the difficulties as well as the persuasive and persistent over-estimations of progress in Artificial Intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComputers have transformed our lives, and will continue to do so for many years to come. But ever since the Turing Test proposed in 1950 up to IBM's Deep Blue computer that won the second six-game match against world champion Garry Kasparov, the science of artificial intelligence has struggled to make progress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reader's expertise is engaged to probe human language, machine learning, neural computing, holistic systems and emergent phenomenon. \u003ci\u003eWhat Makes You Clever\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the difficulties that scientists grapple with in their efforts to understand your cleverness, and points to possible ways forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Singular Enigma\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScanning for Gold\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrain Wave Solutions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhole Parts of Minds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMeaningful Principles — The Search Continues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHolism — an Unholy Problem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHoping for a Knee up Soon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelf-organising Systems — The Engineer's Nightmare\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Knowledge Web\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearning Machines — Climbing Lost and Blind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHot Technologies — the Doomed and the Dubious\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMind Recursion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUltra-Intelligence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSemantic Mirages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHopeware Science\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Glass Half Full\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eReadership:\u003c\/b\u003e General public.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47185291510000,"sku":"9789814513067","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789814513067_p0.jpg?v=1763692347","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789814513067","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}