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| How to Create a Mind | |
| 2013 | |
| http://www.amazon.com/How-Create-Mind-Thought-Revealed/dp/0143124048/ | |
| Great pop-cogsci book on Kurzweil's pattern recognition theory of mind. AI concepts such as hierarchal-hidden-markov-models and neural nets are discussed. | |
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| Consciousness: An Introduction | |
| 2003 | |
| http://www.amazon.com/Consciousness-Introduction-Susan-Blackmore/dp/019515343X/ | |
| Excellent overview of Cognitive Science and the study of consciousness. Used as a textbook for COGS300 at Simon Fraser University. Easy to read and lots of interesting thought experiments. | |
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| Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach | |
| 2002 | |
| http://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Modern-Approach-2nd/dp/0137903952/ | |
| A text for those with considerable logic/computing background. Considered the 'AI Bible' and used as curriculum in many computing/AI courses. Expect terse/dense/academic language. |
Society of Mind
1988
http://www.amazon.com/The-Society-Mind-Marvin-Minsky/dp/0671657135
In a step-by-step process, Minsky constructs a model of human intelligence which is built up from the interactions of simple parts called agents, which are themselves mindless. I think it lines up very well with how people write concurrent software these days. Worth revisiting
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
1968
http://www.amazon.com/Androids-Dream-Electric-Sheep-MASTERWORKS-ebook/dp/B000SEGTI0/
Well.. Blade Runner.. but the book conveys a little more in some aspects.. still very thought provoking albeit easy read
I am a Strange Loop
2008
http://www.amazon.com/Am-Strange-Loop-Douglas-Hofstadter/dp/046503079
I like to think of this as an easier to read "Gödel, Escher, Bach" -- it gets to the gist without too many allegories and pages.
(Also, Alan Kay has a reading list here.. I refer to this occasionally when I can't think of my next book.. http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp)
Control Theory
An Introduction to Cybernetics
2011 (reproduction of 1923)
http://www.amazon.ca/Introduction-Cybernetics-William-Ross-Ashby/dp/117862191X
Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
1965
http://www.amazon.ca/Cybernetics-Control-Communication-Animal-Machine/dp/026273009X
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
1998
http://www.amazon.ca/Reinforcement-Learning-Introduction-Richard-Sutton/dp/0262193981
Seminal book by Sutton and Barto. A new edition was announced by Sutton himself at the RLDM conference this year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind ... by ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mind%27s_I ... by ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter