Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation by Joseph Weizenbaum

Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation



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Page: 315
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ISBN: 0716704633, 9780716704638


It is the capacity to Weizenbaum, J. Choice, however, is the product of judgment, not calculation. The subtly of those dangers is captured beautifully in former MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum's great book, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation. (1976) Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment To Calculation San Francisco: W. A computer that spits out a convincingly human set of output is 'intelligent'. (1976), “Computer Power and Human Reason: from Judgement to Calculation”, San Francisco: W. His observations on the tendency of people to anthropomorphize computers formed the basis of his book Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation. It is also seductively simple to describe: limit communication methods to a teletype terminal and quiz the computer and/or human-being at the other end to form a judgment about their identity. The 1976 article “From Computer Power and Human Reason, From Judgment to Calculation” made some interesting predictions that seem very possible for our near future. Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation. Over the years he also became one of the strongest critics of computer science and a society that blindly believes into technology. I.e., "their" presumed defenses. We then had to assume that "they" had similar weapons and strategies --Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement To Calculation.