1st Edition

Artificial Intelligence and Literary Creativity Inside the Mind of Brutus, A Storytelling Machine

By Selmer Bringsjord, David Ferrucci Copyright 2000
262 Pages
by Psychology Press

262 Pages
by Psychology Press

262 Pages
by Psychology Press

Is human creativity a wall that AI can never scale? Many people are happy to admit that experts in many domains can be matched by either knowledge-based or sub-symbolic systems, but even some AI researchers harbor the hope that when it comes to feats of sheer brilliance, mind over machine is an unalterable fact. In this book, the authors push AI toward a time when machines can autonomously write... Read more
Contents: Preface. Setting the Stage. Could a Machine Author Use Imagery? Consciousness and Creativity. Mathematizing Betrayal. The Narrative-Based Refutation of Church's Thesis. Inside the Mind of BRUTUS.

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Authored by Bringsjord, Selmer; Ferrucci, David

"The stories are intriguing, they hold a hint of mystery, and--not least impressive--they are written in correct English prose."
Computational Linguistics