The quest for artificial intelligence
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"Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field within computer science that is attempting to build enhanced intelligence into computer systems. This book traces the history of the subject, from the early dreams of eighteenth-century (and earlier) pioneers to the more successful work of today's AI engineers."--Jacket.
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Two on AI history: Pamela McCorduck's Machines Who Think, either the 1979 original edition, or the 2004 2nd ed, which adds a 100-page afterword covering 1979–2004. Nils Nilsson's The Quest for Artificial Intelligence (2009). They have somewhat different styles and focuses. McCorduck is a writer (of popular science and sci-fi), while Nilsson was an AI researcher. Which isn't to say that McCorduck lacks knowledge about…
on “Ask HN: Computer Science/History Books?” ↗Have you read 'The Quest for Artificial Intelligence' by Nils J. Nilsson? I think it gives a good overview of development of AI upto 2000s. Link: https://ai.stanford.edu/~nilsson/QAI/qai.pdf
on “An untidy history of AI across four books” ↗