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H. R. Ekbia is associate professor of information science and cognitive science at Indiana University, where he is also affiliated with the School of Informatics. Initially trained as an engineer, Ekbia switched his focus to study cognitive science in order to pursue a lifelong interest in the mostrar mais workings of the human mind. To get a deeper understanding of the questions that AI research and writing posed but hastily tackled, Ekbia in turn began to focus on the philosophy of science and science studies, through which he discovered novel ways of thinking about science, technology, and the human mind mostrar menos

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An ambitious, philosophy-ish critique of artificial intelligence, the various approaches to which Ekbia divides into the categories of supercomputing, cybernetic, knowledge-intensive, case-based, connectionist, dynamical, neorobotic, and analogical. Among the many specific efforts that get their share of knocks here are Kurzweil's forecasts, the Cyc project, and Cog/Kismet. Alleged root problem: AI tries to be both science and engineering at the same time.
 
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