Zusammenfassung
"People sometimes ask me what they should read to find out about artificial
intelligence. Herbert Simon's book The Sciences of the Artificial is always on
the list I give them. Every page issues a challenge to conventional thinking,
and the layman who digests it well will certainly understand what the field of
artificial intelligence hopes to accomplish. I recommend it in the same spirit
that I recommend Freud to people who ask about psychoanalysis, or Piaget to
those who ask about child psychology: If you want to learn about a subject,
start by reading its founding fathers." -- George A. Miller, \_Complex
Information Processing\_
Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science
of design, this new edition of Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial
intelligence adds a chapter that sorts out the current themes and tools --
chaos, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms -- for analyzing complexity and
complex systems. There are updates throughout the book as well. These take
into account important advances in cognitive psychology and the science of
design while confirming and extending the book's basic thesis: that a physical
symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for intelligent action.
The chapter "Economic Reality" has also been revised to reflect a change in
emphasis in Simon's thinking about the respective roles of organizations and
markets in economic systems.
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