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This is an AI/Cognitive Science reading list from discussions at RobotsConf 2013. Please add to this list in the comments. Bonus point if all y'all keep 'em in chronological order. I'll update the master list later today! (Saturday December 7th 2013) Format: { Title }
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How to Create a Mind | |
2013 | |
http://www.amazon.com/How-Create-Mind-Thought-Revealed/dp/0143124048/ | |
Great pop-cogsci book on Kurzweil's pattern recognition theory of mind. AI concepts such as hierarchal-hidden-markov-models and neural nets are discussed. | |
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Consciousness: An Introduction | |
2003 | |
http://www.amazon.com/Consciousness-Introduction-Susan-Blackmore/dp/019515343X/ | |
Excellent overview of Cognitive Science and the study of consciousness. Used as a textbook for COGS300 at Simon Fraser University. Easy to read and lots of interesting thought experiments. | |
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach | |
2002 | |
http://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Modern-Approach-2nd/dp/0137903952/ | |
A text for those with considerable logic/computing background. Considered the 'AI Bible' and used as curriculum in many computing/AI courses. Expect terse/dense/academic language. |
Control Theory
An Introduction to Cybernetics
2011 (reproduction of 1923)
http://www.amazon.ca/Introduction-Cybernetics-William-Ross-Ashby/dp/117862191X
Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
1965
http://www.amazon.ca/Cybernetics-Control-Communication-Animal-Machine/dp/026273009X
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
1998
http://www.amazon.ca/Reinforcement-Learning-Introduction-Richard-Sutton/dp/0262193981
Seminal book by Sutton and Barto. A new edition was announced by Sutton himself at the RLDM conference this year.
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Society of Mind
1988
http://www.amazon.com/The-Society-Mind-Marvin-Minsky/dp/0671657135
In a step-by-step process, Minsky constructs a model of human intelligence which is built up from the interactions of simple parts called agents, which are themselves mindless. I think it lines up very well with how people write concurrent software these days. Worth revisiting
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
1968
http://www.amazon.com/Androids-Dream-Electric-Sheep-MASTERWORKS-ebook/dp/B000SEGTI0/
Well.. Blade Runner.. but the book conveys a little more in some aspects.. still very thought provoking albeit easy read
I am a Strange Loop
2008
http://www.amazon.com/Am-Strange-Loop-Douglas-Hofstadter/dp/046503079
I like to think of this as an easier to read "Gödel, Escher, Bach" -- it gets to the gist without too many allegories and pages.
(Also, Alan Kay has a reading list here.. I refer to this occasionally when I can't think of my next book.. http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp)