{"product_id":"common-sense-the-turing-test-and-the-quest-for-real-ai-isbn-9780262535205","title":"Common Sense, the Turing Test, and the Quest for Real AI","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat artificial intelligence can tell us about the mind and intelligent behavior.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat can artificial intelligence teach us about the mind? If AI's underlying concept is that thinking is a computational process, then how can computation illuminate thinking? It's a timely question. AI is all the rage, and the buzziest AI buzz surrounds \u003ci\u003eadaptive machine learning\u003c\/i\u003e: computer systems that learn intelligent behavior from massive amounts of data. This is what powers a driverless car, for example. In this book, Hector Levesque shifts the conversation to “good old fashioned artificial intelligence,” which is based not on heaps of data but on understanding commonsense intelligence. This kind of artificial intelligence is equipped to handle situations that depart from previous patterns—as we do in real life, when, for example, we encounter a washed-out bridge or when the barista informs us there's no more soy milk. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLevesque considers the role of language in learning. He argues that a computer program that passes the famous Turing Test could be a mindless zombie, and he proposes another way to test for intelligence—the Winograd Schema Test, developed by Levesque and his colleagues. “If our goal is to understand intelligent behavior, we had better understand the difference between making it and faking it,” he observes. He identifies a possible mechanism behind common sense and the capacity to call on background knowledge: the ability to represent objects of thought symbolically. As AI migrates more and more into everyday life, we should worry if systems without common sense are making decisions where common sense is needed.\u003c\/p\u003eIt's a timely book about an exciting and cutting edge technology and research program.—\u003ci\u003e3:AM\u003c\/i\u003e—Hector J. Levesque is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He is the author of C\u003ci\u003eommon Sense, the Turing Test, and the Quest for Real AI\u003c\/i\u003e, coauthor (with Gerhard Lakemeyer) of \u003ci\u003eThe Logic of Knowledge Bases,\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor (with Ronald J. Brachman) of \u003ci\u003eKnowledge Representation and Reasoning\u003c\/i\u003e, all three published by the MIT Press.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304263471333,"sku":"NP9780262535205","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262535205.jpg?v=1767723975","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/common-sense-the-turing-test-and-the-quest-for-real-ai-isbn-9780262535205","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}