Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation Joseph Weizenbaum
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Over the years he also became one of the strongest critics of computer science and a society that blindly believes into technology. UK Sceptic says: July 15, 2009 at 1:11 am. Today, anyone with a flawed human judgment. I have read the 1976 edition of the book Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum – From Judgement to Calculation, although it has been re-published (and presumably updated) in 1993. (1976), “Computer Power and Human Reason: from Judgement to Calculation”, San Francisco: W. A book to read: Computer Power and Human Reason:From Judgment to Calculation by Joseph Weizenbaum. It is an interesting and hot topic. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin. It is also seductively simple to describe: limit communication methods to a teletype terminal and quiz the computer and/or human-being at the other end to form a judgment about their identity. Is there still a place for human judgement? Computers that are fed the right rules can, in principle, calculate ideal chess variations perfectly, whereas humans make mistakes. Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation. A computer that spits out a convincingly human set of output is 'intelligent'. Computer Power and Human reason. Choice, however, is the product of judgment, not calculation. (1976) Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment To Calculation San Francisco: W. It is the capacity to Weizenbaum, J. From web search to marketing and stock-trading, and even education and policing, the power of computers that crunch data according to complex sets of if-then rules is promised to make our lives better in every way. (1949): The Science of Culture: A Study of Man and Civilization. Weizenbaum, Joseph (1976): Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation. Freeman & Company, 1976.[↩]; Torvalds, Linus, and David Diamond. Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary.