Metamagical Themas

Metamagical Themas
Author: Douglas R Hofstadter
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 622
Release: 2008-08-04
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0786723866

Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.

I Am a Strange Loop

I Am a Strange Loop
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2007-03-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0465030785

Argues that the key to understanding ourselves and consciousness is the "strange loop," a special kind of abstract feedback loop that inhabits the brain.

Surfaces and Essences

Surfaces and Essences
Author: Douglas Hofstadter
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2013-04-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0465018475

Shows how analogy-making pervades human thought at all levels, influencing the choice of words and phrases in speech, providing guidance in unfamiliar situations, and giving rise to great acts of imagination.

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 518
Release: 1998
Genre: Analogy
ISBN: 9780140258356

Hosftadter and his colleagues at The Fluid Analogies Research Group have developed computer models that help describe and explain human discovery, creation and analogical thought. The key issue of perception is investigated through the exploration of playful anagrams, number puzzles, word play and fanciful alphabetical styles, and the result is a survey of cognitive processes. This text presents the results.

Gödel, Escher, Bach

Gödel, Escher, Bach
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher: Penguin Group(CA)
Total Pages: 832
Release: 2000
Genre: Art and music
ISBN: 9780140289206

'What is a self and how can a self come out of inanimate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Douglas Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. In order to impart his original and personal view on the core mystery of human existence - our intangible sensation of 'I'-ness - Hofstadter defines the playful yet seemingly paradoxical notion of 'strange loop', and explicates this idea using analogies from many disciplines.

Complexity

Complexity
Author: John Henry Holland
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199662541

In this very short introduction, John Holland presents an introduction to the science of complexity. Using examples from biology and economics, he shows how complexity science models the behaviour of complex systems.

The Nature of Mathematical Modeling

The Nature of Mathematical Modeling
Author: Neil A. Gershenfeld
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1999
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521570954

This is a book about the nature of mathematical modeling, and about the kinds of techniques that are useful for modeling. The text is in four sections. The first covers exact and approximate analytical techniques; the second, numerical methods; the third, model inference based on observations; and the last, the special role of time in modeling. Each of the topics in the book would be the worthy subject of a dedicated text, but only by presenting the material in this way is it possible to make so much material accessible to so many people. Each chapter presents a concise summary of the core results in an area. The text is complemented by extensive worked problems.

The Mind's I

The Mind's I
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 501
Release: 1981
Genre: Artificial intelligence
ISBN: 9780710803528

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
Author: Melanie Mitchell
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0374715238

Melanie Mitchell separates science fact from science fiction in this sweeping examination of the current state of AI and how it is remaking our world No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. The award-winning author Melanie Mitchell, a leading computer scientist, now reveals AI’s turbulent history and the recent spate of apparent successes, grand hopes, and emerging fears surrounding it. In Artificial Intelligence, Mitchell turns to the most urgent questions concerning AI today: How intelligent—really—are the best AI programs? How do they work? What can they actually do, and when do they fail? How humanlike do we expect them to become, and how soon do we need to worry about them surpassing us? Along the way, she introduces the dominant models of modern AI and machine learning, describing cutting-edge AI programs, their human inventors, and the historical lines of thought underpinning recent achievements. She meets with fellow experts such as Douglas Hofstadter, the cognitive scientist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the modern classic Gödel, Escher, Bach, who explains why he is “terrified” about the future of AI. She explores the profound disconnect between the hype and the actual achievements in AI, providing a clear sense of what the field has accomplished and how much further it has to go. Interweaving stories about the science of AI and the people behind it, Artificial Intelligence brims with clear-sighted, captivating, and accessible accounts of the most interesting and provocative modern work in the field, flavored with Mitchell’s humor and personal observations. This frank, lively book is an indispensable guide to understanding today’s AI, its quest for “human-level” intelligence, and its impact on the future for us all.