Computational Technologies and Images of the Self.
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| Title: | Computational Technologies and Images of the Self. |
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| Authors: | Turkle, Sherry |
| Source: | Social Research. Fall97, Vol. 64 Issue 3, p1093-1111. 19p. |
| Subjects: | Artificial intelligence, Artificial neural networks, Personal computers, Logic machines, Information processing |
| Abstract: | This article explores the relationship between artificial intelligence and the human mind. Artificial intelligence (Al) first declared itself a discipline in the mid-1950s. From its earliest days the field was divided into two camps, each supporting a very different idea of how machine intelligence might be achieved. One group considered intelligence to be entirely formal and logical and pinned its hopes on giving computers detailed rules they could follow. The other envisioned machines whose underlying mathematical structures would allow them to learn from experience. The proponents of emergent Al conceived of these underlying structures as independent agents and believed that intelligence would emerge from their interactions and negotiations. By the late 1980s it was clear that even those who had been most critical of information-processing AI could be disarmed by connectionism--and in particular, its language of nondeterminism and its emphasis on learning through experience. |
| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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| Abstract: | This article explores the relationship between artificial intelligence and the human mind. Artificial intelligence (Al) first declared itself a discipline in the mid-1950s. From its earliest days the field was divided into two camps, each supporting a very different idea of how machine intelligence might be achieved. One group considered intelligence to be entirely formal and logical and pinned its hopes on giving computers detailed rules they could follow. The other envisioned machines whose underlying mathematical structures would allow them to learn from experience. The proponents of emergent Al conceived of these underlying structures as independent agents and believed that intelligence would emerge from their interactions and negotiations. By the late 1980s it was clear that even those who had been most critical of information-processing AI could be disarmed by connectionism--and in particular, its language of nondeterminism and its emphasis on learning through experience. |
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| ISSN: | 0037783X |
