The Quest for Artificial Intelligence: A History of Ideas and Achievements

Livro digital

Título:
The Quest for Artificial Intelligence: A History of Ideas and Achievements

Autor:
Nils J. Nilsson

Categoria:
Tecnologia > IA

Doador:
Raffaello D. N.

Sinopse:
Artificial intelligence did not begin with chatbots or modern machine learning, and this book makes that clear from its opening arc: Dreams and Dreamers, then Clues from philosophy, logic, the brain, psychology, evolution, and engineering. That structure gives the reader a real map of how AI emerged as a field, not just a list of famous breakthroughs. From there, the book moves through the early explorations of the 1950s and 1960s, including the Dartmouth Summer Project, pattern recognition, heuristic programs, semantic representations, natural language processing, and the infrastructure that made AI research possible. Later chapters widen the lens to computer vision, hand-eye research, knowledge representation and reasoning, mobile robots like Shakey, and the progress of language understanding, showing how each strand influenced the next. The result is a clear historical guide to AI as an evolving set of ideas, methods, and ambitions. Readers get both the technical milestones and the intellectual context behind them, which makes the book useful for anyone who wants to understand why modern AI looks the way it does, and how many of its core problems were already taking shape decades ago.