Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation by Joseph Weizenbaum

Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation



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ISBN: 0716704633, 9780716704638
Page: 315
Format: djvu


Computers that are fed the right rules can, in principle, calculate ideal chess variations perfectly, whereas humans make mistakes. He will open the festivities with a talk directed at both scientists as well as cultural workers. We then had to assume that "they" had similar weapons and strategies --Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement To Calculation. Joseph Weizenbaum, author of the influental book "Computer Power and Human Reason - From Judgment to Calculation" (1976). Joseph Weizenbaum (1976), Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Freeman. 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. The subtly of those dangers is captured beautifully in former MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum's great book, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation. Is there still a place for human judgement? By mid 70s, new computer crime laws and privacy had been enacted in America and Europe. I.e., "their" presumed defenses. 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. Today, anyone with a flawed human judgment. In his 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Weizenbaum criticized systems that substituted automated decision-making for the human mind. 1976: A book named 'Computer Power and Human Reason' was published by Joseph Wiezenbaum, which is still considered as the classic of computer ethics.

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