Smarts The Boundary-Busting Story of Intelligence |
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| Author:
| Dewar, Elaine |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9940512-0-2 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2015 |
| Publisher: | Debonaire Books
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $24.99 |
Book Description:
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SMARTS tells the stories of the brilliant scientists redefining whatintelligence is, and who, or what, displays it. Merging Darwin'sideas with Alan Turing's, they have found intelligence everywhere,while turning it into a process to be used. SMARTS' charactersinclude the mysterious Turing; the infamous eugenicist FrancisGalton; ethologist Frans B.M. de Waal and his political chimpanzees;Anne E. Russon and her miming orangutans; Dario Floreanoand his altruistic robots; Stefano Mancuso...
More DescriptionSMARTS tells the stories of the brilliant scientists redefining whatintelligence is, and who, or what, displays it. Merging Darwin'sideas with Alan Turing's, they have found intelligence everywhere,while turning it into a process to be used. SMARTS' charactersinclude the mysterious Turing; the infamous eugenicist FrancisGalton; ethologist Frans B.M. de Waal and his political chimpanzees;Anne E. Russon and her miming orangutans; Dario Floreanoand his altruistic robots; Stefano Mancuso and his masterful plants; engineer/philosopherChris Eliasmith whose Spaun is assmart as the average university student and will be coming soonto a robot near you. There are slime molds that compute, octopusesthat signal in colors they cannot see, spies, deaths, anddisappearances. Part history, part memoir, SMARTS is a report from the front where machines are getting way too smart, andsmart life is being machined.