Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence"A dizzying display of intellect and wild imaginings by Moravec, a world-class roboticist who has himself developed clever beasts . . . Undeniably, Moravec comes across as a highly knowledgeable and creative talent--which is just what the field needs".--Kirkus Reviews. |
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... machinery , eventually as complicated as tiny robot arms and equally tiny computers to control them . These would be ... machinery . At the nanometer scale , the world is stocked with an abundance of components of absolute ...
... machinery , eventually as complicated as tiny robot arms and equally tiny computers to control them . These would be ... machinery . At the nanometer scale , the world is stocked with an abundance of components of absolute ...
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... machinery that runs the program . The dualism will be especially apparent if we consider some of the different possibilities for encoding . Some supercomputers have myriads of individual computers inter- connected by a network that ...
... machinery that runs the program . The dualism will be especially apparent if we consider some of the different possibilities for encoding . Some supercomputers have myriads of individual computers inter- connected by a network that ...
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... machinery without having to deal with the messy details of real - world physics , von Neumann devised a simple ... machinery ) in contact with another , long pattern ( the tape ) . A signal from the machinery causes the tape ...
... machinery without having to deal with the messy details of real - world physics , von Neumann devised a simple ... machinery ) in contact with another , long pattern ( the tape ) . A signal from the machinery causes the tape ...
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