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The Society of Mind
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Marvin Minsky as discussed by the authors gave a revolutionary answer to the age-old question: "how does the mind work?" and showed that the mind does not work in a linear fashion.Abstract:
Marvin Minsky--one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT--gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old question: "how does the mind work?"read more
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Perceptual symbol systems.
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Genetic Algorithms and Machine Learning
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Is it an Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents
Stan Franklin,Arthur C. Graesser +1 more
TL;DR: This work proposes a formal definition of an autonomous agent which clearly distinguishes a software agent from just any program, and offers the beginnings of a natural kinds taxonomy of autonomous agents.