Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (870 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 026218267X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-26 |
| Language | : | Spanish |
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In Chess Metaphors, Diego Rasskin-Gutman explores fundamental questions about memory, thought, emotion, consciousness, and other cognitive processes through the game of chess, using the moves of thirty-two pieces over sixty-four squares to map the structural and functional organization of the brain. Chess is an activity in which we deploy almost all our available cognitive resources; therefore, it makes an ideal laboratory for investigation into the workings of the mind. Examining AI researchers' efforts to program a computer that could beat a flesh-and-blood grandmaster (and win a world chess championship), he finds that the results fall short when compared to the truly creative nature of the human mind..
Diego Rasskin-Gutman is Research Associate and Head of the Theoretical Biology Research Group at the Institute Cavanilles for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Spain.
Stevens, Professor, The Salk Institute)Given its rich discussion of how chess programs have developed, Chess Metaphors should appeal to both chess enthusiasts and those interested in cognition and the mind. Diego Rasskin-Gutman has gracefully surveyed modern ideas about artificial intelligence in a context of brain structure and function and of contemporary views about cognitive science. A fascinating read. (Miguel Illescas Córdoba, International Chess Grand Master, Director, Chess Education and Technology, Spain)From the inner works of the brain to automata and artifi
Good overview of subjects but not integrated I bought this book with the expectation of reading something on the mind, AI and chess and ways in which they overlap. In particular how the study of chess might have impacted AI research and how chess programming uses ideas from cognitive analysis of chess players. This book was not about those thingsThe book starts out with an overview of the brain physiology. It assumes no prior knowledge and goes through some of the evolutionary differences between humans and other species. It discusses the basics of neurons, how they communicate and some of the ideas behind how the brain might work. In pa. Herbert L Calhoun said The State of Chess Since Deep Blue's Victory over Kasparov. The author covers the waterfront since "Deep Blue" soundly beat Garry Kasparov but in a very much hit or miss fashion. Even with the announcement in the title that the book is about "chess metaphors," the organization of the book suffers from too much jumping about and too little apparent actual knowledge about chess thought per se. It is not entirely clear what he expected to accomplish in the book as a whole? The results are a kind of parallel analysis of several loosely connected topics that should they have been better integrated would have made for a much more interesting read: The key to. Lots of stray facts and material without any real cohesion definitely a pass Igelfeld If nothing else, this book is an easy read because it really doesn't take any real brain power to understand the meeting of how the brain works with the experience of playing chess. This is true because the author never even seems to attempt to integrate the first two chapters of the book (on different aspects of the mental processing and the brain) and the later chapters on chess. Instead, there is what is a summary of achievements in computer chess. I knew there was a problem when the author starts to sing the praises of pioneers like Turing, Shannon, etc Of course, Shannon was a major contr