Artificial Dreams

Today we have AI systems that, according to claims, play chess, compose music, create paintings, and even express emotions - but how? Unlike skeptical accounts of AI that refute its possibility and portray the above claims as pure fantasies, Ekbia uncovers the hidden assumptions surrounding AI.

1. The origins of AI; 2. Supercomputing AI; 3. Cybernetic AI; 4. Knowledge-intensive AI; 5. Case-based AI; 6. Connectionist AI; 7. Dynamical AI; 8. Neo-robotic AI; 9. Analogical AI.

"I think all undergraduate physics majors will own a copy of this book within a year. It's that good."
--Professor Krsna Dev, Middlebury College

"Morin's writing is informal and inviting, and students will almost certainly respond easily to this style... [students] will fine the book accessible."
--J.R. Buriaga, Whitman College for Choice
"Artificial Dreams by Ekbia (information science and cognitive science, Indiana Univ.) is an interesting, entertaining book on how some dreams of artificial intelligence (AI) practitioners become valued contributions while others become only unrealizable projects. A major contribution of the book is a taxonomy and historical review of the different views of AI, which is covered in individual chapters. Highly Recommended."
--C. Tappert, Pace University, CHOICE
"...Artificial Dreams: The Quest for NonBiological Intelligence is written in a clear and accessible style that lay audiences and researchers outside of AI will enjoy reading; they will find the book very interesting in its breadth of coverage and, if they are curious about doing further reading, will find its extensive references very useful....Cognitive psychologists with interests in AI but who have not kept up with it are likely to find Ekbia's coverage and treatment very interesting..."
--Michael Palij, PsycCRITIQUES, March 11, 2009, Vol. 54, Release 10, Article 4