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Title: Wonderful but quite dry in parts
Review: This book is, as others have commented, different from DH's other more entertaining books.It is a serious attempt to discuss the real issues and difficulties with AI research. There is a lot of quite dry material and in places it is repetitive.It provides terrific insight into the problem of imitating human thinking at a deep level, and I found it very rewarding. It was also very interesting to follow the threads of how he went about doing research, and what he thought of other AI research.His views of various flavours of AI research were very instructive and inightful I thought.In summary a good book, but this is not (high quality) brain candy like Godel Escher Bach etc.
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