Preparation
- Watch this video on Artificial Intelligence in the 1960s (4 min).
- And this one on the early history of Artificial Intelligence (5 min).
Read this viewpoint article by AI leader Patrick Henry Winston ..OR.. Watch his talk about story understanding (60 min).
- Winston, P.H., 2012. The next 50 years: a personal view. Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 1, pp.92-99. [PDF]
Further reading and watching
- Patrick Henry Winston’s homepage. and a webpage describing the Genesis system. The MIT computer science course on AI. This webpage by Dylan Holmes has numerous demonstrations of Artificial Intelligence methodology.
- Alison Gopnik, author of The Philosophical Baby – This is the most interesting part of the discussion, running from 00:54:11 to 02:13:23.
- Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI by John Brockman.
- Marvin Minsky. The Society of Mind. Simon & Schuster, 1988.
- Marvin Minsky. The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind. Simon & Schuster, 2006.
- Making Sense Podcast #153 – Possible Minds by Sam Harris
Conversations with George Dyson, Alison Gopnik, and Stuart Russell
Computational Neuroscience 