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Title: Muddled and Confused
Review: This book is seriously flawed. I could not work out if the author was a mathemetician dabbling (very poorly) with philosophy, or a muddled philosopher bumbling his way around computer science. This is not a serious AI book, it is more a confused manifesto similar to those that pop up all to often on internet AI newsgroups by the various wackos that feel the need to vent their bizzare ideas to all the world.The author's philosophy is summed up in the last paragraph of his preface: "In sum, the book intends to tell the reader that there is no other way to build ultra-human machine intelligence excepting by synthesizing the highest intellectural achievements of collective human minds in philosophy, science, and mathematics and then embodying such universal knowledge about reality, mind, language, and artifacts into machines".
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