Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?

by Paul Thagard

Book Overview

An expert on mind considers how animals and smart machines measure up to human intelligence.

Octopuses can open jars to get food, and chimpanzees can plan for the future. An IBM computer named Watson won on Jeopardy and Alexa knows our favorite songs. But do animals and smart machines really have intelligence comparable to that of humans? In Bots and Beasts, Paul Thagard looks at how computers ("bots") and animals measure...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026204594X
• ISBN13: 9780262045940
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"