Artificial Experts

by Collins, Harry M.

• ISBN13: 9780262531153
• ISBN10: 0262531151
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-11-13
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

In Artificial Experts, Collins explains what computers can't do, but he also studies the ordinary and extraordinary things that they can do. He argues that the machines we create are limited because we cannot reproduce in symbols what every community knows, yet we give our machines abilities by the way we embed them in our society. He unfolds a compelling account of the difference between human action and machine intelligence, the core of which is a witty and learned explanation of knowledge itself, of what communities know and the ways in which they know it. H. M. Collins is Professor of Sociology, Head of the School of Social Sciences, and Director of the Science Studies Centre at the University of Bath.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xi
What Computers Can Do
Artificial Brains or Artificial Experts?	p. 3
The Knowledge Barrier and Digitization	p. 17
Machine-like Action	p. 30
Mental Acts and Mental Behavior	p. 46
Interpretation and Repair	p. 62
Expert Systems and the Articulation of Knowledge
What We Can Say about What We Know	p. 75
Rules and Expert Systems	p. 93
Cultural Competence and Scientific Knowledge	p. 106
Explaining and Discovering Machines?	p. 120
A Skill Encoded -- A Skill Practiced
Tales from the World of Crystal Growing	p. 135
Apprenticeship -- First Steps in Crystal Growing	p. 154
Growing Crystals	p. 167
Testing the Limits of Articulation
The Meaning of the Turing Test	p. 181
Skill and the Turing Test	p. 198
Final Remarks
Intelligent Machines: An Experiment in Knowledge Science	p. 215
Notes	p. 225
References	p. 251
Index	p. 259
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